The mechanical properties of very small systems are often strikingly different from the properties of everyday objects. As one considers ever-smaller objects, thermal fluctuations, and then quantum fluctuations start to be important. In this thesis I explain some unusual nanoscale mechanical effects, and predict some new effects. The bulk of the thesis is devoted to calculating the forces between bodies that are closely spaced, but not touching. These van der Waals forces have been studied in detail for bodies in thermal equilibrium. Most of the world is not in thermal equilibrium, and van der Waals forces in this regime are very different from their equilibrium cousins. In contrast to equilibrium forces, nonequilibrium forces are much stro...
Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because nanomechanical sy...
Nanomaterials are now essential to fields as disparate as telecommunications, medicine, renewable en...
nanostructures Abstract Interaction between two surfaces in relative motion can give rise to energy ...
176 pages format A5This mémoire presents my current research interests in micro and nano-mechanics i...
This book contains a collection of the state-of-the-art reviews written by the leading researchers i...
This thesis presents a number of nanotribological problems investigated by means of classical molecu...
Non-covalent van der Waals interactions play a major role at the nanoscale, and even a slight change...
This book presents a self-contained derivation of van der Waals and Casimir type dispersion forces, ...
In order to illustrate how atomistic modeling is being used to determine the structure, physical, an...
This thesis studies higher-order material properties* and effects in van der Waals crystals, such as...
In recent years, nanotechnology is the basis for the development of modern production. This determin...
Nanoscale physics has become one of the rapidly developing areas of contemporary physics because of ...
This doctoral thesis investigates three different topics: How friction evolves in atomically thin la...
The first description of a process due to random fluctuations was published in 1827 by the botanist ...
Interactions induced by electromagnetic fluctuations, such as van der Waals and Casimir forces, are ...
Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because nanomechanical sy...
Nanomaterials are now essential to fields as disparate as telecommunications, medicine, renewable en...
nanostructures Abstract Interaction between two surfaces in relative motion can give rise to energy ...
176 pages format A5This mémoire presents my current research interests in micro and nano-mechanics i...
This book contains a collection of the state-of-the-art reviews written by the leading researchers i...
This thesis presents a number of nanotribological problems investigated by means of classical molecu...
Non-covalent van der Waals interactions play a major role at the nanoscale, and even a slight change...
This book presents a self-contained derivation of van der Waals and Casimir type dispersion forces, ...
In order to illustrate how atomistic modeling is being used to determine the structure, physical, an...
This thesis studies higher-order material properties* and effects in van der Waals crystals, such as...
In recent years, nanotechnology is the basis for the development of modern production. This determin...
Nanoscale physics has become one of the rapidly developing areas of contemporary physics because of ...
This doctoral thesis investigates three different topics: How friction evolves in atomically thin la...
The first description of a process due to random fluctuations was published in 1827 by the botanist ...
Interactions induced by electromagnetic fluctuations, such as van der Waals and Casimir forces, are ...
Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because nanomechanical sy...
Nanomaterials are now essential to fields as disparate as telecommunications, medicine, renewable en...
nanostructures Abstract Interaction between two surfaces in relative motion can give rise to energy ...