Communications: Evidence for the role of fluctuations in the thermodynamics of nanoscale drops and the implications in computations of the surface tension

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Sampayo, Joś G ^a   Malijevsk, Alexandr ^a,b   Müller, Erich A ^a   De Miguel, Enrique ^c   Jackson, George ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENNARD-JONES PARTICLES; LIQUID DROP; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO SCALE; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; SECOND ORDERS; VAPOR-LIQUID INTERFACES;

CAPILLARITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; VAPORS; WETTING;

LIQUIDS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMICS;

NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE TENSION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77951121903     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3376612     Document Type: Article

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