Reexamination of Tolman's law and the Gibbs adsorption equation for curved interfaces

Abstract

In manuscript arXiv:1703.08719 [cond-mat.soft], it was claimed that the well-known deduction of Tolman's law is not rigorous, since Tolman's argument implies that two different definitions of the surface tension, called $\gamma$ and $\bar{\gamma }$ in the manuscript, coincide. This claim is retracted as it can be shown by free-energy minimization that $\gamma =\bar{\gamma }$ indeed holds for the Laplace radius. Joachim Groß, Philipp Rehner, Carlos Vega, Øivind Wilhelmsen, and the anonymous reviewers of The Journal of Chemical Physics contributed to finding the mistake in the manuscript.

arXiv commentManuscript arXiv:1703.08719 [cond-mat.soft] contains claims that were shown to be incorrect; the manuscript and the claims are retracted

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