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Tomas Polcar is a researcher affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their work spans fields primarily in Engineering and Materials Science, demonstrating a focused engagement with advanced materials and their mechanical and chemical properties.

Their research significantly covers subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. This multidisciplinary approach reflects an emphasis on understanding materials at both atomic and macroscopic scales.

Key topics in Polcar's scholarly output include:

  • Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Fusion Materials and Technologies
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Advanced Materials and Composites
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications

Polcar has published extensively with frequent contributions to journals such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Surface Science
  • Acta Materialia
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of Nuclear Materials

The researcher has collaborated often with several colleagues, including N. Daghbouj, Antonio Cammarata, M. Callisti, Hüseyin Şener Şen, and Miroslav Karlík, indicating a network of partnerships in related material science and engineering domains.

Some of the recent papers involving Tomas Polcar include:

  • Precise control of the interlayer twist angle in large scale MoS2 homostructures (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • UItra-low friction and edge-pinning effect in large-lattice-mismatch van der Waals heterostructures (2021), published in Nature Materials
  • The structural evolution of light-ion implanted 6H-SiC single crystal: Comparison of the effect of helium and hydrogen (2020), published in Acta Materialia
  • Mechanisms of friction and wear reduction by h-BN nanosheet and spherical W nanoparticle additives to base oil: Experimental study and molecular dynamics simulation (2020), published in Tribology International
  • Revealing nanoscale strain mechanisms in ion-irradiated multilayers (2022), published in Acta Materialia

Best Publications

  • UItra-low friction and edge-pinning effect in large-lattice-mismatch van der Waals heterostructures.

    Mengzhou Liao;Mengzhou Liao;Paolo Nicolini;Luojun Du;Luojun Du;Jiahao Yuan

  • Precise control of the interlayer twist angle in large scale MoS2 homostructures.

    Mengzhou Liao;Mengzhou Liao;Zheng Wei;Luojun Du;Qinqin Wang

  • Electronic metal-support interaction enhanced oxygen reduction activity and stability of boron carbide supported platinum.

    Colleen Jackson;Graham T. Smith;Graham T. Smith;David W. Inwood;Andrew S. Leach

  • Review on self-lubricant transition metal dichalcogenide nanocomposite coatings alloyed with carbon

    T. Polcar;T. Polcar;A. Cavaleiro

  • Temperature dependence of tribological properties of MoS2 and MoSe2 coatings

    T. Kubart;T. Polcar;L. Kopecký;R. Novák

  • Comparison of tribological behaviour of TiN, TiCN and CrN at elevated temperatures

    T. Polcar;T. Kubart;R. Novák;L. Kopecký

  • High-temperature tribological properties of CrAlN, CrAlSiN and AlCrSiN coatings

    Tomas Polcar;Albano Cavaleiro

  • Friction and wear behaviour of CrN coating at temperatures up to 500 °C

    T. Polcar;N.M.G. Parreira;R. Novák

  • High temperature properties of CrAlN, CrAlSiN and AlCrSiN coatings – Structure and oxidation

    Tomas Polcar;Tomas Polcar;Albano Cavaleiro

  • Sliding properties of MoS2 layers: load and interlayer orientation effects

    G. Levita;A. Cavaleiro;Elisa Molinari;T. Polcar;T. Polcar

  • Structural, mechanical and tribological properties of Mo–S–C solid lubricant coating

    J.V. Pimentel;T. Polcar;T. Polcar;A. Cavaleiro

  • The tribological characteristics of TiCN coating at elevated temperatures

    T. Polcar;R. Novák;P. Široký

  • Influence of Ag content on mechanical and tribological behavior of DLC coatings

    N.K. Manninen;F. Ribeiro;A. Escudeiro;T. Polcar;T. Polcar

  • Microstructural evolution of helium-irradiated 6H–SiC subjected to different irradiation conditions and annealing temperatures: A multiple characterization study

    N. Daghbouj;B.S. Li;M. Callisti;H.S. Sen

  • High temperature tribology of CrN and multilayered Cr/CrN coatings

    T. Polcar;T. Polcar;R. Martinez;T. Vítů;L. Kopecký

  • Tribological characteristics of CrCN coatings at elevated temperature

    T. Polcar;L. Cvrček;P. Široký;R. Novák

  • Complex frictional analysis of self-lubricant W-S-C/Cr coating

    Tomas Polcar;Fredrik Gustavsson;Thomas Thersleff;Staffan Jacobson

  • The structural evolution of light-ion implanted 6H-SiC single crystal: Comparison of the effect of helium and hydrogen

    N. Daghbouj;B.S. Li;M. Callisti;H.S. Sen

  • Self-adaptive low friction coatings based on transition metal dichalcogenides

    Tomas Polcar;Tomas Polcar;Albano Cavaleiro

  • Influence of Cr additions on the structure and oxidation resistance of multilayered TiAlCrN films

    M. Danek;F. Fernandes;A. Cavaleiro;T. Polcar;T. Polcar

  • Tribological characterization of tungsten nitride coatings deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering

    T. Polcar;N.M.G. Parreira;A. Cavaleiro

  • Ultra-low friction W–S–N solid lubricant coating

    Fredrik Gustavsson;Staffan Jacobson;Albano Cavaleiro;Tomas Polcar

Frequent Co-Authors

Albano Cavaleiro
Albano Cavaleiro University of Coimbra
Javier Llorca
Javier Llorca Technical University of Madrid
Staffan Jacobson
Staffan Jacobson Uppsala University
Jon M. Molina-Aldareguia
Jon M. Molina-Aldareguia Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies
Mariana Henriques
Mariana Henriques University of Minho
Frans D. Tichelaar
Frans D. Tichelaar Delft University of Technology
Terence G. Langdon
Terence G. Langdon University of Southern California
Eduardo Alves
Eduardo Alves Instituto Superior Técnico
Anne Neville
Anne Neville University of Leeds
Altino Loureiro
Altino Loureiro University of Coimbra

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