Density functional theory for chemical engineering: From capillarity to soft materials

J Wu - AIChE journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the microscopic structure and macroscopic properties of condensed matter
from a molecular perspective is important for both traditional and modern chemical …

Fundamental challenges and opportunities for preparative supercritical fluid chromatography

G Guiochon, A Tarafder - Journal of Chromatography A, 2011 - Elsevier
The use of supercritical fluids as mobile phases in chromatography was suggested nearly
fifty years ago. In spite of some major potential advantages, this mode of chromatography …

Effect of asphaltene structure on association and aggregation using molecular dynamics

M Sedghi, L Goual, W Welch… - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The aggregation of asphaltenes has been established for decades by numerous
experimental techniques; however, very few studies have been performed on the …

The state of the cubic equations of state

JO Valderrama - Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 2003 - ACS Publications
The development of van der Waals cubic equations of state and their application to the
correlation and prediction of phase equilibrium properties is presented and analyzed. The …

[HTML][HTML] Energy variational analysis of ions in water and channels: Field theory for primitive models of complex ionic fluids

B Eisenberg, Y Hyon, C Liu - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Ionic solutions are mixtures of interacting anions and cations. They hardly resemble dilute
gases of uncharged noninteracting point particles described in elementary textbooks …

A consistency test for α-functions of cubic equations of state

Y Le Guennec, S Lasala, R Privat, JN Jaubert - Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2016 - Elsevier
This study highlights that α-functions used in cubic equations of state must be of class C 2 ie
that their first (d α/d T) and second (d 2 α/d T 2) derivatives must exist and must be …

A detailed thermodynamic analysis of [C 4 mim][BF 4]+ water as a case study to model ionic liquid aqueous solutions

LPN Rebelo, V Najdanovic-Visak, ZP Visak… - Green …, 2004 - pubs.rsc.org
Since determining experimentally a wide variety of thermophysical properties—even for a
very small portion of the already known room temperature ionic liquids (and their mixtures …

A general guidebook for the theoretical prediction of physicochemical properties of chemicals for regulatory purposes

C Nieto-Draghi, G Fayet, B Creton, X Rozanska… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The REACH regulation (recent EU regulation for “Registration, Evaluation, Authorization,
and Restriction of Chemicals”) entered its product-recording phase after December 2008. 1 …

Exploiting synergistic effects of intermolecular interactions to synthesize hybrid rejuvenators to revitalize aged asphalt

F Pahlavan, A Samieadel, S Deng… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
This paper examines the merits of using a hybrid bio-oil derived from algae and swine
manure to rejuvenate aged bitumen by restoring the bitumen properties which are degraded …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Advances in Thermodynamics of the van der Waals Fluid

DC Johnston - 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The van der Waals mean-field theory of fluids was formulated by van der Waals in 1873 and
augmented by Maxwell in 1875. It is the first theory that predicts a phase transition from …