Surfactant Effects and an Order-Disorder Transition in Binary Gas-Liquid Nucleation
- 6 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 84 (10), 2184-2187
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.84.2184
Abstract
Density-functional theory is applied to the interaction site model to study gas-liquid nucleation in a partially immiscible binary system consisting of spherical Lennard-Jones atoms (monomers) and dumbbell molecules of two Lennard-Jones atoms (dimers). Increased interaction anisotropy between the dimer sites and monomers is shown to result in mutual enhancement of nucleation. Critical nuclei with a lamellar structure are observed at high dimer activities.Keywords
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