Origin of line tension for a Lennard-Jones nanodroplet

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Weijs, Joost H ^a   Marchand, Antonin ^b   Andreotti, Bruno ^b   Lohse, Detlef ^a   Snoeijer, Jacco H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

LENGTH SCALE; LENNARD JONES; LINE TENSION; MOLECULAR SCALE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NANODROPLET; NANODROPS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 79952098447     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3546008     Document Type: Article

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