Computer Simulation Study of the Wetting Behavior and Line Tensions of Nanometer Size Particulates at a Liquid-Vapor Interface
- 27 April 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (17) , 3791-3794
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.3791
Abstract
We study the behavior of nanometer size particulates at a liquid-vapor interface by means of molecular dynamics simulations. We propose a methodology for computing the line tension using computer simulations, and present new data for the wetting of particulates at a planar liquid-vapor interface, as a function of particulate size. For the sizes considered in this work the line tension is negative and influences the wetting behavior of particulates at the liquid-vapor interface.Keywords
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