Effect of branching on the fluid phase behavior of alkane monolayers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 3460-3463

  Potoff, Jeffrey J ^a   Siepmann, J Ilja ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; GOLD; ISOMERS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOLAYERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAFFINS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; DIMETHYLBUTANE; HEXANE; VAPOR LIQUID COEXISTENCE CURVE;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 0034301544     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3460     Document Type: Article

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