Influence of intermolecular forces at critical-point wedge filling

Tricritical Wedge Filling Transitions with Short-ranged Forces

We show that the 3D wedge filling transition in the presence of shortranged interactions can be first-order or second order depending on the strength of the line tension associated with to the wedge bottom. This fact implies the existence of a tricritical point characterized by a short-distance expansion which differs from the usual continuous filling transition. Our analysis is based on an eff...

Intermolecular forces.

The nature of molecular interactions is examined. Intermolecular forces are divided into long-range and short-range components; the former operate at distances where the effects of electron exchange are negligible and decrease as an inverse power of the separation. The long-range interactions may be subdividied into electrostatic, induction and dispersion contributions, where the electrostatic ...

Influence of intermolecular order at the interfaces

Intermolecular Forces and Biological Specificity.

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Critical Exponent for Gap Filling at Crisis.

A crisis in chaotic dynamical systems is characterized by the conversion of a nonattracting, Cantorset-like chaotic saddle into a chaotic attractor. The gaps in between various pieces of the chaotic saddle are densely filled after the crisis. We give a quantitative scaling theory for the growth of the topological entropy for a major class of crises, the interior crisis. The theory is confirmed ...