Intrusion and extrusion of liquids in highly confining media: Bridging fundamental research to applications

A Le Donne, A Tinti, E Amayuelas… - … in Physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Wetting and drying of pores or cavities, made by walls that attract or repel the liquid, is a
ubiquitous process in nature and has many technological applications including, for …

Vapor− liquid interface of the lennard-jones truncated and shifted fluid: comparison of molecular simulation, density gradient theory, and density functional theory

S Stephan, J Liu, K Langenbach… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The vapor–liquid interface of the Lennard-Jones truncated and shifted (LJTS) fluid with a
cutoff radius of 2.5 σ is investigated for temperatures covering the range between the triple …

Perspective: The Asakura Oosawa model: A colloid prototype for bulk and interfacial phase behavior

K Binder, P Virnau, A Statt - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
In many colloidal suspensions, the micrometer-sized particles behave like hard spheres, but
when non-adsorbing polymers are added to the solution a depletion attraction (of entropic …

Disjoining pressure and the film-height-dependent surface tension of thin liquid films: New insight from capillary wave fluctuations

LG MacDowell, J Benet, NA Katcho… - Advances in colloid and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper we review simulation and experimental studies of thermal capillary wave
fluctuations as an ideal means for probing the underlying disjoining pressure and surface …

Casimir contribution to the interfacial Hamiltonian for 3D wetting

A Squarcini, JM Romero-Enrique, AO Parry - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Previous treatments of three-dimensional (3D) short-ranged wetting transitions have missed
an entropic or low-temperature Casimir contribution to the binding potential describing the …

Mean-field theory of inhomogeneous fluids

SM Tschopp, HD Vuijk, A Sharma, JM Brader - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
The Barker-Henderson perturbation theory is a bedrock of liquid-state physics, providing
quantitative predictions for the bulk thermodynamic properties of realistic model systems …

Local structure of liquid/vapour interfaces approaching the critical point

G Hantal, P Jedlovszky, M Sega - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Investigating the structure of fluid interfaces at high temperatures is a particularly delicate
task that requires effective ways of discriminating liquid from vapour and identifying the …

[HTML][HTML] Equilibrium evaporation coefficients quantified as transmission probabilities for monatomic fluids

MCW Wolf, R Enright, SV Gaastra-Nedea… - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Equilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to investigate the liquid/vapor
interface where particle exchange between the liquid and vapor phase is quantified in terms …

Influence of the fluid structure on the binding potential: comparing liquid drop profiles from density functional theory with results from mesoscopic theory

AP Hughes, U Thiele, AJ Archer - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
For a film of liquid on a solid surface, the binding potential g (h) gives the free energy as a
function of the film thickness h and also the closely related (structural) disjoining pressure …

[HTML][HTML] The pressure tensor across a liquid-vapour interface

C Braga, ER Smith, A Nold, DN Sibley… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Inhomogeneous fluids exhibit physical properties that are neither uniform nor isotropic. The
pressure tensor is a case in point, key to the mechanical description of the interfacial region …