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Interfacial fluctuation effects at 3D wedge-wetting
Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2001Abstract We review recent advances concerning the nature of fluctuation effects occurring at continuous filling transitions pertinent to fluid adsorption in wedge geometries. Unlike continuous (critical) wetting transitions for planar interfaces which are an extremely rare experimental phenomena, continuous filling transitions should be easily ...
Carlos Rascon
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Computer Simulation of Interfacial Fluctuation Phenomena
Physica Scripta, 1990Monte Carlo computer-simulation techniques applied to a microscopic interaction model of the gel-to-fluid chain-melting phase transition in pseudo-two-dimensional lipid membranes (mono- and bilayers) have shown that the density fluctuations at the transition induce formation of pseudo-one-dimensional fluctuating interfaces between lipid clusters in the
Ole G Mouritsen, John H Ipsen
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Fluctuation of Interfacial Electronic Properties Induces Friction Tuning under an Electric Field
Nano Letters, 2022Mysteries about the origin of friction have remained for centuries. Especially, how friction is tuned by an electric field is still unclear. Present tuning mechanisms mainly focus on the atomic configurations and electrostatic force, yet the role of interfacial electronic properties is not fully understood. Here, we investigate a unique friction tuning
Aisheng Song, Hong-Jun Gao, Jianbin Luo
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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 1994
We develop a theory for the wavevector expansion of the excess grand potential of a liquid-vapour interface emphasizing the need to minimize the grand potential density functional for a given collective coordinate l(y) denoting the position of a surface of fixed density rho X (magnetization mX).
Andrew Parry
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We develop a theory for the wavevector expansion of the excess grand potential of a liquid-vapour interface emphasizing the need to minimize the grand potential density functional for a given collective coordinate l(y) denoting the position of a surface of fixed density rho X (magnetization mX).
Andrew Parry
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Fluctuation-induced interfacial forces in ordered films
Physical Review Letters, 1992exaly +3 more sources
The interfacial tension concept, as revealed by fluctuations [PDF]
Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2016 Abstract A simple, didactic model that could have conclusively interpreted the complexity of specific salt (Hofmeister-) effects on protein solubility and function, using a single physical quantity as a central parameter, has long been missing. Via surveying a row of recent papers we show in this review that a phenomenological formalism based on the ...
Násztor, Zoltán +2 more
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On the statistical mechanics of interfaces and interfacial fluctuations
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1989We present a new approximation scheme for dealing with the statistical mechanics of homogeneous and inhomogeneous systems. This new self-consistent method, based on a rigorous variational principle for the free energy, treats on equal footing the average order parameter and the fluctuations about it.
MARINI BETTOLO MARCONI, Umberto +1 more
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Capillary interface potential and interfacial fluctuations
Molecular Physics, 1995A microscopic derivation of the capillary-wave Hamiltonian for two fluctuating interfaces in a binary fluid mixture is presented. The capillary-wave Hamiltonian for the free fluctuating interface as well as the capillary interfacial potential describing the effective interaction between two fluctuating interfaces are obtained as the non-local ...
A. Korociński, M. Napiórkowski
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