title: Peculiarities of the adsorption kinetics of mixed convex plus concave contour objects.
abstract: Random sequential adsorption of mixed convex plus concave contour (MC) objects exhibits some distinctly different peculiar characteristics than the cases of purely convex objects. Though the substrate coverage approaches the jamming limit with time t as t;{-p} , same as that for convex objects, the law p approximately 1d_{f} , valid for convex objects with d_{f} degrees of freedom, does not hold for MC objects. Interestingly, for a fixed number of degrees of freedom, the exponent p changes with the degree of nonconvexity and bears a near perfect correlation with the same.
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Studies in Materials Science and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune 411 007, India.
authors.forename: Pradip B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Shelke
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Ogale
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Khandkar
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Limaye