M. H. Müser and L. Nicola
Modeling the surface-topography dependence of friction, adhesion, and contact compliance
MRS Bulletin (in print).
DOI: 10.1557/s43577-022-00468-2 ([future] open access)
Local preprint
Author: Martin Mueser
Differentiating pressure-, shear-, and temperature-induced reactions
S. V. Sukhomlinov, G. Kickelbick, and M. H. Müser
Mechanochemical ionization: Differentiating pressure-, shear-, and temperature-induced reactions in a model phosphate
Tribol. Lett. 69, 89 (2021)
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-022-01644-w (open access)
(accepted preprint)
Stickiness criterion for adhesion
Anle Wang and Martin H. Müser
Is there more than one stickiness criterion?
Friction TBD, TBD (2022)
DOI: 10.1007/s40544-022-0644-3 (open access)
Structural lubricity of graphite and its breakdown
Hongyu Gao and Martin H. Müser
Structural lubricity of physisorbed gold clusters on graphite and its breakdown: Role of boundary conditions and contact lines
Frontiers in Chemistry 10, ??? (2022)
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.935008 (open access)
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2205.01177
Cutting off potentials
Martin H. Müser
Improved cutoff functions for short-range potentials and the Wolf summation
Mol. Phys. 48, 1393-1401 (2022)
DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2022.2094430
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2204.13639
Interatomic potentials
Martin H. Müser, Sergey V. Sukhomlinov, and Lars Pastewka
Interatomic potentials: Achievements and challenges
Adv. Phys. X 8, 1 (2023)
DOI: 10.1080/23746149.2022.2093129 (open access)
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2204.09563
Viscoelastic pull-off dynamics
Martin H. Müser and Bo N. J. Persson
Crack and pull-off dynamics of adhesive, viscoelastic solids
EPL 137, 36004 (2022)
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/ac535c (open access)
preprint
Viscous dissipation of randomly rough surfaces
Sergey Sukhomlinov and Martin H. Müser
On the viscous dissipation caused by randomly rough indenters in smooth sliding motion
Appl. Surf. Sci. Adv. 6, 100182 (2021)
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsadv.2021.100182
Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.15056
Specific heat of polymers
Hongyu Gao, Tobias P. W. Menzel, Martin H. Müser, and Debashish Mukherji
Comparing simulated specific heat of liquid polymers and oligomers to experiments
Phys. Rev. Mat. 5, 065605 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.065605
(preprint)
Zinc phosphate film formation under anisotropic stress
Sergey V. Sukhomlinov and Martin H. Müser
Stress anisotropy severely affects zinc phosphate network formation
Tribol. Lett. 69, 89 (2021)
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-021-01462-6
submitted manuscript, supplemental materials
Anisotropic percolation and Reynolds flow
Anle Wang and Martin H. Müser
Percolation and Reynolds Flow in Elastic Contacts of Isotropic and Anisotropic, Randomly Rough Surfaces
Tribol. Lett. 69, 1 (2021)
https://rdcu.be/cbSXO (open access)
Modeling adhesive hysteresis
Anle Wang, Yunong Zhou, and Martin H. Müser
Modeling adhesive hysteresis
Lubricants 9, 17 (2021)
preprint submitted to Lubricants
DOI: 10.3390/lubricants9020017 (open access)
Contact mechanics across the spatial dimensions
Elastic contacts of randomly rough indenters with thin sheets, membranes under tension, half spaces, and beyond
Martin H. Müser
Tribol. Lett. 69, 25 (2021); (accepted version)
Contacts of random surfaces with correlation
Effect of structural parameters on the relative contact area for ideal, anisotropic, and correlated random roughness
Yunong Zhou and Martin H. Müser,
Front. Mech. Eng. 6, article 59 (2020).
Dissipation in surfactant monolayers
Hongyu Gao, James P. Ewen, Remco Hartkamp, Martin H. Müser, and Daniele Dini
Scale-Dependent Friction-Coverage Relations and Non-Local Dissipation in Surfactant Monolayers
Langmuir 37, 2406-2418 (2021)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c03403
Preprint: chemrxiv
A new function for local structure characterization
Sergey V. Sukhomlinov and Martin H. Müser
A mixed radial, angular, three-body distribution function as a tool for local structure characterization: Application to single-component structures
J. Chem. Phys. 152, 07964 (2020)
DOI: 10.1063/5.0007964
accepted version, supplementary material
g3.tar (tar ball with code, readme file, and example)
Shear thinning in the Prandtl model
Martin H. Müser
Shear thinning in the Prandtl model and its relation to generalized Newtonian fluid
Lubricants 8, 38 (2020)
DOI: 10.3390/lubricants8040038 (open access)
[ original submission ]
Thermal contact mechanics
How thermal fluctuations affect hard-wall repulsion and thereby Hertzian contact mechanics
Yunong Zhou, Anle Wang, and Martin H. Müser,
Frontiers 5, 67 (2019); (submitted version)
Plasticity of polymer surfaces
A. Tiwari, A. Wang, M.H. Müser, and B.N.J. Persson
Contact mechanics for solids with randomly rough surfaces and plasticity
Lubricants 7, 90 (2019)
DOI: 10.3390/lubricants7100090 (open source)
Confined solidification
Hongyu Gao and Martin H. Müser
Why liquids can appear to solidify during squeeze-out – even when they don’t
Journal of Colloidal and Interface Science 562, 273–278 (2020);
preprint / free download for 50 days
Entropy can bundle nanowires
Hongyu Gao, Simon Bettscheider, Tobias Kraus, and Martin H. Müser
Entropy can bundle nanowires in good solvents
(accepted version version, supporting information)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02379
Contact mechanics of hydrogels
Martin H. Müser, Han Li, and Roland Bennewitz,
Modeling the contact mechanics of hydrogels
Lubricants 7, 35 (2019).
DOI: 10.3390/lubricants7040035 (free access)
Shear heating of confined fluids
James P. Ewen, Hongyu Gao, Martin H. Müser and Daniele Dini,
Shear heating, flow, and friction of confined molecular fluids at high pressure
Phys. Chem. Them. Phys. 21, 5813-5823 (2019).
DOI: 10.1039/C8CP07436D
Limits of structural lubricity
Martin H. Müser,
Are there limits to superlubricity of graphene in hard, rough contacts?
Frontiers in mechanical engineering 5, 28 (2019)
open access and submitted version
DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2019.00028
Structural changes at the fragile-to-strong transition in BMG-forming melts
S. V. Sukhomlinov and M. H. Müser,
Quasi-discontinuous change of the density correlation length at the fragile-to-strong transition in a bulk-metallic-glass forming melt
Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115604 (2018) (accepted version)
System-size anomalies of BMG forming melts
S. V. Sukhomlinov and M. H. Müser,
Anomalous system-size dependence of properties at the fragile-to-strong transition in a bulk-metallic-glass forming melt
Comp. Mat. Sci. 156, 129-134 (2018); (submitted version).
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.09.047
(free download until Nov. 15, 2018)
Contact mechanics of stepped indenters
Martin H. Müser,
Elasticity does not necessarily break down in nanoscale contacts
Tribol. Lett. 67, 57 (2019) (accepted version, view article)
Setting boundary-element problems on FIRE
Yunong Zhou, Michael Moseler, and Martin H. Müser,
Solution of boundary-element problems using the fast-inertial-relaxation-engine method
Phys. Rev. B 99, 144103 (2019) (accepted version)
Limits of self-affinity in contact between randomly rough surfaces
Martin H. Müser and Anle Wang,
Contact-patch-size distribution and limits of self-affinity in contacts between randomly rough surfaces
Lubricants 6, 85 (2018)
DOI: 10.3390/lubricants6040085 (free access)
Internal stresses
Martin H. Müser,
Internal, elastic stresses below randomly rough contacts
J. Mech. Phys. Solids
(accepted version upon request, or after June 20, 2020 on this site)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2018.06.012.
Response to Comment on Contact-Mechanics Challenge
Martin H. Müser,
Response to “A Comment on Meeting the Contact‑(Mechanics) Challenge”
Tribol. Lett. 65, 103 (2017).
(accepted version)
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-018-0986-1.
The height-difference ACF
Anle Wang and Martin H. Müser,
On the usefulness of the height-difference-autocorrelation function
for contact mechanics
Tribol. Int. 123, 224-233 (2018).
Free download (until May 12, 2018)
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2018.02.002
submitted version