Surfactant effects and an order-disorder transition in binary gas-liquid nucleation
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.
Napari
I
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
Laaksonen
A