TY - JOUR
T1 - Line adsorption in a mean-field density-functional model
AU - Koga, K.
AU - Widom, B.
N1 - Funding Information:
KK acknowledges support by MEXT, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Reserch. BW acknowledges support by the US National Science Foundation and the Cornell Center for Materials Research.
PY - 2006/11
Y1 - 2006/11
N2 - Recent ideas about the analogue for a three-phase contact line of the Gibbs adsorption equation for interfaces are illustrated in a mean-field density-functional model. With d the infinitesimal change in the line tension that accompanies the infinitesimal changes di in the thermodynamic field variables i and with i the line adsorptions, the sum [image omitted], unlike its surface analogue, is not 0. An equivalent of this sum in the model system is evaluated numerically and analytically. A general line adsorption equation, which the model results illustrate, is derived.
AB - Recent ideas about the analogue for a three-phase contact line of the Gibbs adsorption equation for interfaces are illustrated in a mean-field density-functional model. With d the infinitesimal change in the line tension that accompanies the infinitesimal changes di in the thermodynamic field variables i and with i the line adsorptions, the sum [image omitted], unlike its surface analogue, is not 0. An equivalent of this sum in the model system is evaluated numerically and analytically. A general line adsorption equation, which the model results illustrate, is derived.
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U2 - 10.1080/00268970600958574
DO - 10.1080/00268970600958574
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34547795202
SN - 0026-8976
VL - 104
SP - 3469
EP - 3477
JO - Molecular Physics
JF - Molecular Physics
IS - 22-24
ER -