Selected publications
[1] Ming Ma, Gabriele Tocci, Angelos Michaelides*, Gabriel Aeppli, Fast diffusion of water nanodroplets on graphene, Nature Materials 15, 66–71 (2016)
— Reported by NanoWerk, EurekAlert, ScienceDaily
[2] Wengen Ouyang, Ming Ma, Quanshui Zheng, Michael Urbakh*, Frictional Properties of Nanojunctions Including Atomically Thin Sheets, Nano Letters 16 (3), 1878-1883 (2016)
[3] Roberto Guerra*, Andrea Benassi, Andrea Vanossi, Ming Ma, Michael Urbakh, Friction and adhesion mediated by supramolecular host-guest complexes, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18 (13) 9248-9254 (2016)
[4] Ming Ma, Francois Grey*, Luming Shen, Michael Urbakh, Shuai Wu, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Yilun Liu, Quanshui Zheng*, Water transport inside carbon nanotubes mediated by phonon-induced oscillating friction, Nature Nanotechnology 10, 692 (2015)
— Reported by over 55 articles from over a dozen countries, including Xinhua Net, NY City News, The Times of Israel, etc.
[5] Ming Ma, Igor Sokolov, Wen Wang, Alexander E. Filippov, Quanshui Zheng, Michael Urbakh*, Diffusion through bifurcations in oscillating nano- and micro-scale contacts: Fundamentals and applications, Physical Review X 5, 031020 (2015)
— Featured in Physics (http://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/82)
[6] Ming Ma, Andrea Benassi, Andrea Vanossi*, Michael Urbakh*, Critical length limiting superlow friction, Physical Review Letters 114 (5), 055501 (2015)
[7] Yasmine Al-Hamdani, Ming Ma, Dario Alfè, O. Anatole von Lilienfeld, Angelos Michaelides*, Communication: Water on hexagonal boron nitride from diffusion Monte Carlo, The Journal of Chemical Physics 142, 181101 (2015)
[8] Andrea Benassi, Ming Ma, Michael Urbakh*, and Andrea Vanossi*, The breakdown of superlubricity by driving-induced commensurate dislocations, Scientific Reports 5,16134 (2015)
[9] Chao Chen, Luming Shen*, Ming Ma, Jefferson Zhe Liu and Quanshui Zheng*, Brownian motion-induced water slip inside carbon nanotubes, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 16, 305-313 (2014)
[10] Ming Ma*, Luming Shen, Lifeng Wang, Quanshui Zheng, Buckling Properties of Pre-Stressed Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering 11 (1): 17–26 (2013)
[11] Ming Ma, Luming Shen*, John Sheridan, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Chao Chen and Quanshui Zheng*, Friction of water slipping in carbon nanotubes, Physical Review E 83 (3), 036316 (2011)
[12] Wei Xiong, Jefferson Zhe Liu*, Ming Ma, Zhiping Xu, John Sheridan and Quanshui Zheng*, Strain engineering water transport in graphene nanochannels, Physical Review E 84 (5), 056329 (2011)
[13] Chao Chen, Ming Ma, Kai Jin, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Luming Shen, Quanshui Zheng and Zhiping Xu*, Nanoscale fluid-structure interaction: flow resistance and energy transfer between water and carbon nanotubes, Physical Review E 84 (4), 046314 (2011)
[14] Chen Chen, Ming Ma, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Quanshui Zheng and Zhiping Xu*, Viscous damping of nanobeam resonators: humidity, thermal noise and the paddling effect, Journal of Applied Physics 110 (3), 034320 (2011)
[15] Ming Ma, Jefferson Zhe Liu*, Lifeng Wang, Luming Shen, Lin Xie, Fei Wei, Jing Zhu, Qianming Gong, Ji Liang, and Quanshui Zheng*, Reversible high-pressure carbon nanotube vessel, Physical Review B 81 (23), 235420 (2010)
[16] Ming Ma, Jefferson Zhe Liu*, Luming Shen, Lifeng Wang, Quanshui Zheng*, Effects of vacancies on interwall spacings of multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Journal of Zhejiang University - SCIENCE A (Appl Phys & Eng) 11(10), 714-721, (2010)
[17] Ming Ma, Luming Shen*, John Sheridan, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Chao Chen, Quanshui Zheng, Friction law for water flowing in carbon nanotubes, IEEE Conference Proceedings (ICONN), 392 – 395, 2010