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Michael Urbakh

Michael Urbakh

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56
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12416
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8207
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Overview

Michael Urbakh is a researcher affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel, specializing primarily in Materials Science, Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy. Their extensive work spans a variety of interconnected subfields including Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The researcher's topics of study focus prominently on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Graphene Research and Applications, 2D Materials and Applications, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, and Mechanical and Optical Resonators.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Cumulative polarization in conductive interfacial ferroelectrics, 2022, Nature
  • Theory and Simulations of Ionic Liquids in Nanoconfinement, 2023, Chemical Reviews
  • Structural lubricity in soft and hard matter systems, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Interfacial Ferroelectricity by van der Waals Sliding, 2021, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Controllable Thermal Conductivity in Twisted Homogeneous Interfaces of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride, 2020, Nano Letters

Frequent collaborators in their research include Oded Hod, Wengen Ouyang, Xiang Gao, Kenji Watanabe, and Takashi Taniguchi.

Publication venues where Michael Urbakh has contributed multiple works include arXiv (Cornell University), Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nano Letters, and Physical Review Letters.

Best Publications

  • The nonlinear nature of friction

    Michael Urbakh;Joseph Klafter;Delphine Gourdon;Jacob Israelachvili

  • Structural superlubricity and ultralow friction across the length scales

    Oded Hod;Ernst Meyer;Quanshui Zheng;Michael Urbakh

  • Colloquium : Modeling friction: from nanoscale to mesoscale

    Andrea Vanossi;Nicola Manini;Michael Urbakh;Stefano Zapperi

  • Robust microscale superlubricity in graphite/hexagonal boron nitride layered heterojunctions

    Yiming Song;Davide Mandelli;Oded Hod;Michael Urbakh

  • Friction through dynamical formation and rupture of molecular bonds.

    A. E. Filippov;J. Klafter;M. Urbakh

  • Beyond the conventional description of dynamic force spectroscopy of adhesion bonds

    O. K. Dudko;A. E. Filippov;J. Klafter;M. Urbakh

  • Torque and Twist against Superlubricity

    Alexander E. Filippov;Martin Dienwiebel;Martin Dienwiebel;Joost W. M. Frenken;Joseph Klafter

  • Statistical Mechanics of Static and Low‐Velocity Kinetic Friction

    Martin H. Müser;Michael Urbakh;Mark O. Robbins

  • Influence of Roughness on the Admittance of the Quartz Crystal Microbalance Immersed in Liquids

    Leonid Daikhin;Eliezer Gileadi;Galina Katz;Vladimir Tsionsky

  • Cumulative polarization in conductive interfacial ferroelectrics.

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  • Water transport inside carbon nanotubes mediated by phonon-induced oscillating friction

    Ming Ma;Ming Ma;Ming Ma;François Grey;Luming Shen;Michael Urbakh;Michael Urbakh

  • Nanoserpents: Graphene Nanoribbon Motion on Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Materials

    Wengen Ouyang;Davide Mandelli;Michael Urbakh;Oded Hod

  • Dynamics of transition from static to kinetic friction.

    O. M. Braun;I. Barel;M. Urbakh

  • Observation of High-Speed Microscale Superlubricity in Graphite

    Jiarui Yang;Ze Liu;Francois Grey;Zhiping Xu

  • Multibond dynamics of nanoscale friction: the role of temperature.

    Itay Barel;Michael Urbakh;Lars Jansen;André Schirmeisen

  • Self-assembly of nanoparticle arrays for use as mirrors, sensors, and antennas.

    Joshua B. Edel;Alexei A. Kornyshev;Michael Urbakh

  • Influence of the Surface Morphology on the Quartz Crystal Microbalance Response in a Fluid

    Michael Urbakh;Leonid Daikhin

  • Roughness effect on the frequency of a quartz-crystal resonator in contact with a liquid.

    Michael Urbakh;Leonid Daikhin

  • Sliding friction of graphene/hexagonal -boron nitride heterojunctions: a route to robust superlubricity.

    D. Mandelli;I. Leven;O. Hod;M. Urbakh

  • Effect of Surface Film Structure on the Quartz Crystal Microbalance Response in Liquids

    Leonid Daikhin;Michael Urbakh

  • Nanotribology: The renaissance of friction

    Michael Urbakh;Ernst Meyer

  • Dynamic force spectroscopy: a Fokker–Planck approach

    O.K. Dudko;A.E. Filippov;J. Klafter;M. Urbakh

  • Interfacial ferroelectricity by van der Waals sliding.

    M. Vizner Stern;Y. Waschitz;W. Cao;I. Nevo

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Klafter
Joseph Klafter Tel Aviv University
Alexei A. Kornyshev
Alexei A. Kornyshev Imperial College London
Quanshui Zheng
Quanshui Zheng Tsinghua University
Oded Hod
Oded Hod Tel Aviv University
Fernando Bresme
Fernando Bresme Imperial College London
Eliezer Gileadi
Eliezer Gileadi Tel Aviv University
Roland Bennewitz
Roland Bennewitz Leibniz Association
Ernst Meyer
Ernst Meyer University of Basel
Erio Tosatti
Erio Tosatti International School for Advanced Studies
Joshua B. Edel
Joshua B. Edel Imperial College London

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