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To wet or not to wet: that is the question
Silvina M. Gatica, Milton W. Cole
Wetting transitions have been predicted and observed to occur for various combinations of fluids and surfaces. This paper describes the origin of such transitions, for liquid films…
Effects of substrate relaxation on adsorption in pores
Hye-Young Kim, Silvina M. Gatica, George Stan +1
Fluids in porous media are commonly studied with analytical or simulation methods, usually assuming that the host medium is rigid. By evaluating the substrate's response (relaxatio…
Ordering of rare gas films on a decagonal Al-Ni-Co quasicrystal
R. D. Diehl, W. Setyawan, N. Ferralis +3
This paper reviews recent progress in the study of rare gas films on quasicrystalline surfaces. The adsorption of Xe on the 10-fold surface of decagonal Al-Ni-Co was studied using…
Static Polarizabilities of Dielectric Nanoclusters
Hye-Young Kim, Jorge O. Sofo, Darrell Velegol +2
A cluster consisting of many atoms or molecules may be considered, in some circustances, to be a single large molecule with a well defined polarizability. Once the polarizability o…
Capillary condensation in cylindrical nanopores
Silvina M. Gatica, Milton W. Cole
Using grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations, we have explored the phenomenon of capillary condensation (CC) of Ar at the triple temperature inside infinitely long, cylindrical po…
Evolution of topological order in Xe films on a quasicrystal surface
Stefano Curtarolo, Wahyu Setyawan, Nicola Ferralis +2
We report results of the first computer simulation studies of a physically adsorbed gas on a quasicrystalline surface, Xe on decagonal Al-Ni-Co. The grand canonical Monte Carlo met…
Wetting transition of water on graphite and other surfaces
S. M. Gatica, J. K. Johnson, X. C. Zhao +1
A wetting transition occurs when the contact angle of a liquid drop on a surface changes from a nonzero value to zero. Such a transition has never been observed for water on any so…
Anomalous low temperature specific heat of He-3 inside nanotube bundles
S. M. Gatica, F. Ancilotto, M. W. Cole
Helium atoms and hydrogen molecules can be strongly bound inside interstitial channels within bundles of carbon nanotubes. An exploration of the low energy and low temperature prop…
Adsorption of Xe and Ar on Quasicrystalline Al-Ni-Co
R. A. Trasca, N. Ferralis, R. D. Diehl +1
An interaction potential energy between and adsorbate (Xe and Ar) and the 10-fold Al-Ni-Co quasicrystal is computed by summing over all adsorbate-substrate interatomic interactions…
Intriguing examples of inhomogeneous broadening
Francesco Ancilotto, M. Mercedes Calbi, Milton W. Cole +2
Three problems are considered in which inhomogeneous broadening can yield unusual consequences. One problem involves the energy levels of atoms moving within nanopores of nearly cy…
Gas condensation within a bundle of carbon nanotubes - effects of screening
M. K. Kostov, J. C. Lewis, M. W. Cole
We study the low temperature phase behavior of hydrogen within a bundle of carbon nanotubes. Because the carbon environment weakens the attraction between molecules within the same…
Many-body interactions among adsorbed atoms and molecules within carbon nanotubes and in free space
Milen K. Kostov, Milton W. Cole, John Courtenay Lewis +2
This paper assesses the importance of three-body triple dipole interactions for quasi-one dimensional phases of He, Ne, H_2, Ar, Kr and Xe confined within interstitial channels or…