Surface Transitions for Confined Associating Mixtures
- 9 February 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (6) , 1252-1255
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.1252
Abstract
Thin films of binary mixtures that interact through isotropic forces and directionally specific “hydrogen bonding” are considered through Monte Carlo simulations. We show, in good agreement with experiment, that the single phase of these mixtures can be stabilized or destabilized on confinement. These results resolve a long standing controversy, since previous theories suggest that confinement only stabilizes the single phase of fluid mixtures.Keywords
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