Square-well fluids in confined space with discretely attractive wall-fluid potentials: critical point shift.
In this work the effects of the wall-fluid interaction on the critical point shift are studied by using a discrete and attractive wall-fluid interaction and density functional theory. In contrast to the previous assumption, it is found that the dependence of critical temperature shift on the wall-fluid interaction does not simply show a monotonic manner, but increases with the strength of the interaction for weak surfaces, then decreases for strong surfaces. The similar trend holds for the systems with different fluid-fluid interactions and different confined spaces. Unlike the capillary critical temperature, the critical density of square-well fluids in a confined space increases monotonically as the wall-fluid interaction becomes more attractive.
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Xianren
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Division of Molecular and Materials Simulation, Key Lab for Nanomaterials, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China. zhangxr@mail.buct.edu.cn
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Wenchuan
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