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Overview

Tianbao Ma is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering and materials science. Their research spans multiple subfields such as materials chemistry, mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their main research topics focus on areas including lubricants and their additives, force microscopy techniques and applications, diamond and carbon-based materials research, tribology and wear analysis, metal and thin film mechanics, graphene research and applications, and adhesion, friction, and surface interactions.

Tianbao Ma has published in a variety of journals and conference venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Tribology International
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nano Letters
  • Applied Surface Science
  • Friction

The scientist has coauthored multiple papers with frequent collaborators such as Jie Zhang, Aisheng Song, Jianbin Luo, Qiang Xu, and Yuanzhong Hu.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Tianbao Ma include:

  • A review of advances in tribology in 2020-2021, 2022, published in Friction
  • Abnormal conductivity in low-angle twisted bilayer graphene, 2020, published in Science Advances
  • Domino-like stacking order switching in twisted monolayer-multilayer graphene, 2022, published in Nature Materials
  • Superlubricity between Graphite Layers in Ultrahigh Vacuum, 2020, published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Role of transfer film formation on the tribological properties of polymeric composite materials and spherical plain bearing at low temperatures, 2020, published in Tribology International

Best Publications

  • Tribology of two-dimensional materials: From mechanisms to modulating strategies

    Shuai Zhang;Tianbao Ma;Ali Erdemir;Qunyang Li

  • Robust microscale superlubricity under high contact pressure enabled by graphene-coated microsphere.

    Shu-Wei Liu;Hua-Ping Wang;Qiang Xu;Tian-Bao Ma

  • Plant leaves inspired sunlight-driven purifier for high-efficiency clean water production.

    Hongya Geng;Qiang Xu;Mingmao Wu;Hongyun Ma

  • Nanomanufacturing of silicon surface with a single atomic layer precision via mechanochemical reactions

    Lei Chen;Jialin Wen;Peng Zhang;Bingjun Yu

  • Molecular dynamics simulation of shear-induced graphitization of amorphous carbon films

    Tian-Bao Ma;Yuan-Zhong Hu;Hui Wang

  • Interlayer Friction and Superlubricity in Single-Crystalline Contact Enabled by Two-Dimensional Flake-Wrapped Atomic Force Microscope Tips.

    Yanmin Liu;Aisheng Song;Zhi Xu;Ruilong Zong

  • Superlubricity of a graphene/MoS2 heterostructure: a combined experimental and DFT study.

    Linfeng Wang;Linfeng Wang;Xiang Zhou;Tianbao Ma;Dameng Liu

  • A shear localization mechanism for lubricity of amorphous carbon materials

    Tian-Bao Ma;Lin-Feng Wang;Yuan-Zhong Hu;Xin Li

  • Atomic-scale friction in graphene oxide: An interfacial interaction perspective from first-principles calculations

    Lin-Feng Wang;Tian-Bao Ma;Yuan-Zhong Hu;Hui Wang

  • Robust ultra-low-friction state of graphene via moiré superlattice confinement.

    Xiaohu Zheng;Lei Gao;Quanzhou Yao;Qunyang Li

  • Superlubricity of two-dimensional fluorographene/MoS2 heterostructure: a first-principles study.

    Lin-Feng Wang;Tian-Bao Ma;Yuan-Zhong Hu;Quanshui Zheng

  • Study of AFM-based nanometric cutting process using molecular dynamics

    Peng-zhe Zhu;Yuan-zhong Hu;Tian-bao Ma;Hui Wang

  • Atomic insight into tribochemical wear mechanism of silicon at the Si/SiO 2 interface in aqueous environment: Molecular dynamics simulations using ReaxFF reactive force field

    Jialin Wen;Tianbao Ma;Weiwei Zhang;George Psofogiannakis

  • Energy dissipation in atomic-scale friction

    Yuan-zhong Hu;Tian-bao Ma;Hui Wang

  • Three‐Dimensional Graphene Networks with Abundant Sharp Edge Sites for Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

    Huaping Wang;Xu-Bing Li;Lei Gao;Lei Gao;Hao-Lin Wu

  • Vanishing stick-slip friction in few-layer graphenes: the thickness effect.

    Liang Xu;Tian-Bao Ma;Yuan-Zhong Hu;Hui Wang

  • Ab Initio Study of the Friction Mechanism of Fluorographene and Graphane

    Lin-Feng Wang;Tian-Bao Ma;Yuan-Zhong Hu;Hui Wang

  • Molecular Dynamics Study on Friction Due to Ploughing and Adhesion in Nanometric Scratching Process

    Peng-zhe Zhu;Yuan-zhong Hu;Tian-bao Ma;Hui Wang

  • Domino-like stacking order switching in twisted monolayer–multilayer graphene

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  • Abnormal conductivity in low-angle twisted bilayer graphene

    Shuai Zhang;Aisheng Song;Lingxiu Chen;Chengxin Jiang

  • Microstructural and stress properties of ultrathin diamondlike carbon films during growth: Molecular dynamics simulations

    TianBao Ma;Yuan-Zhong Hu;Hui Wang;Xin Li

  • Direct Chemical-Vapor-Deposition-Fabricated, Large-Scale Graphene Glass with High Carrier Mobility and Uniformity for Touch Panel Applications.

    Jingyu Sun;Zhaolong Chen;Long Yuan;Yubin Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Hui Wang
Hui Wang Tsinghua University
Jianbin Luo
Jianbin Luo Tsinghua University
Qiang Xu
Qiang Xu Kyoto University
Adri C. T. van Duin
Adri C. T. van Duin Pennsylvania State University
Liangti Qu
Liangti Qu Tsinghua University
Hui Wang
Hui Wang Central South University
Liang Xu
Liang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhongfan Liu
Zhongfan Liu Peking University
Gui Yu
Gui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Li Lin
Li Lin Peking University

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