Thermodynamic and structural properties of confined discrete-potential fluids.
The thermodynamic and structural behaviors of confined discrete-potential fluids are analyzed by computer simulations, studying in a systematic way the effects observed by varying the density, temperature, and parameters of the potentials that characterize the molecule-molecule interactions. The Gibbs ensemble simulation technique for confined fluids [A. Z. Panagiotopoulos, Mol. Phys. 62, 701 (1987)] is applied to a fluid confined between two parallel hard walls. Two different systems have been considered, both formed by spherical particles that differ by the interparticle pair potential: a square well plus square shoulder or a square shoulder plus square well interaction. These model interactions can describe in an effective way pair potentials of real molecular and colloidal systems. Results are compared with the simpler reference systems of square-shoulder and square-well fluids, both under confinement. From the adsorption characterization through the use of density profiles, it is possible to obtain specific values of the interparticle potential parameters that result in a positive to negative adsorption transition.
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Instituto de Física, Universidad de Guanajuato, Loma del Bosque 103, Colonia Lomas del Campestre, León 37150, Mexico. alb@fisica.ugto.mx
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