Calculation of interfacial properties via free-energy-based molecular simulation: The influence of system size

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Grzelak, Eric M ^a   Errington, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE-SIZED SYSTEMS; GRAND CANONICAL MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; INTERFACE POTENTIALS; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; LENNARD JONES FLUID; LIMITING VALUES; LINEAR DIMENSIONS; MACROSCOPIC SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; PRE-WETTING; QUANTITY OF INTEREST; SATURATION CURVE; SCALING FUNCTIONS; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SIMULATION DATA; SPREADING COEFFICIENTS; SUBSTRATE POTENTIAL; SURFACE DENSITY; SYSTEM SIZE; SYSTEM SIZE DEPENDENCE; TWO MODEL SYSTEMS; WETTING TEMPERATURE; WETTING TRANSITIONS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUIDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SUBSTRATES;

WETTING;

EID: 77953566601     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3431525     Document Type: Article

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