Gianpietro Moras

Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials — Germany

Materials Science · Physical Sciences

18h-index1.1kcitations44works5.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research(24), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications(20), Lubricants and Their Additives(14), Metal and Thin Film Mechanics(8), High-pressure geophysics and materials(7)

Publications44 total

Modeling in tribology: Recent advances, applications, and open questions
Tribology International·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
When wall slip wins over shear flow: A temperature-dependent Eyring slip law and a thermal multiscale model for diamond-like carbon lubricated by a polyalphaolefin oil
Tribology International·2025Open Access
Transient Formation of Single Layer Diamond During Friction Force Microscopy of SiC‐Supported Epitaxial Graphene
Advanced Materials Interfaces·2025Open Access
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Lubrication of Rolling Point Contacts by Double Transfer Films: Relationships between Friction and Lubricant Film Distribution Revealed by Spacer Layer Imaging and Molecular Dynamics
Tribology Transactions·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Influence of tip materials on the friction force microscopy of epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001): comparison of diamond and silicon tips in experiments and atomistic simulations
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Surface Depassivation via B–O Dative Bonds Affects the Friction Performance of B-Doped Carbon Coatings
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
An All-Atom Force Field for Dry and Water-Lubricated Carbon Tribological Interfaces
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C·2024· 4 cited
Superlubricity of Silicon-Based Ceramics Sliding against Hydrogenated Amorphous Carbon in Ultrahigh Vacuum: Mechanisms of Transfer Film Formation
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces·2024· 15 citedOpen Access
matscipy: materials science at the atomic scale withPython
The Journal of Open Source Software·2024· 19 citedOpen Access
Toward a continuum description of lubrication in highly pressurized nanometer-wide constrictions: The importance of accurate slip laws
Science Advances·2023· 18 citedOpen Access
An All-Atom Force Field for Dry and Water-Lubricated Carbon Tribological Interfaces
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023Open Access
Yielding under compression and the polyamorphic transition in silicon
Physical Review Materials·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Yielding under compression and the polyamorphic transition in silicon
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023Open Access
Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes for Solid Lubrication of Highly Loaded Contacts
ACS Applied Nano Materials·2023· 17 cited
Relating Dry Friction to Interdigitation of Surface Passivation Species: A Molecular Dynamics Study on Amorphous Carbon
Materials·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Solid-Phase Silicon Homoepitaxy via Shear-Induced Amorphization and Recrystallization
Physical Review Letters·2021· 9 citedOpen Access
A Combined Experimental and Atomistic Investigation of PTFE Double Transfer Film Formation and Lubrication in Rolling Point Contacts
Tribology Letters·2021· 31 citedOpen Access
Superlow Friction of a-C:H Coatings in Vacuum: Passivation Regimes and Structural Characterization of the Sliding Interfaces
Coatings·2021· 25 citedOpen Access
Interplay of mechanics and chemistry governs wear of diamond-like carbon coatings interacting with ZDDP-additivated lubricants
Nature Communications·2021· 91 citedOpen Access
A Combined Experimental and Atomistic Investigation of PTFE Double Transfer Film Formation and Lubrication in Rolling Point Contacts
2021· 5 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Michael Moseler(30), Lars Pastewka(14), Takuya Kuwahara(13), Thomas Reichenbach(12), Leonhard Mayrhofer(11), Alessandro De Vita(8), Jean Michel Martin(6), Gábor Cśanyi(6), Andreas Klemenz(6), Maria-Isabel De Barros Bouchet(5), Lucio Colombi Ciacchi(5), James R. Kermode(5), Peter Gumbsch(4), Stefan Peeters(4), Pedro Romero(3), Jules Galipaud(3), Karine Masenelli‐Varlot(3), Mohamed Ben Hassine(3), Christophe Héau(3), Melissa Stoll(3)