Studies of nano-structured liquids in confined geometries and at surfaces

Studies of nano-structured liquids in confined geometries and at surfaces.

Polymers at interfaces and surfaces and in confined geometries

Inhomogeneous polymer systems have attracted abiding technological interest (Advincula et al., 2004; Cahn et al., 1993; Garbassi et al., 2000; Granick et al., 2003a; Karim and Kumar, 2000; Stamm, 2008). The surface of a polymer liquid determines the wetting properties, adhesion, corrosion, and friction as well as the gloss of a polymeric material. Polymers do not only find application in form o...

Dynamics of Hard and Soft Colloids in Confined Geometries and on Structured Surfaces

Relaxations of methylpyridinone tautomers at the C60 surfaces: DFT studies

Density functional theory (DFT) based calculations have been performed to examine the relaxations of tautomers of 4–hydroxy–6–methylpyridin–2(1H)–one (MPO), as a representative of pyridinone derivatives, at the fullerene (C60) surfaces. Optimized molecular properties including energies, dipole moments and atomic scale quadrupole coupling constants (CQ) have been e...

Diffusion in confined geometries.

Diffusive transport of particles or, more generally, small objects, is a ubiquitous feature of physical and chemical reaction systems. In configurations containing confining walls or constrictions, transport is controlled both by the fluctuation statistics of the jittering objects and the phase space available to their dynamics. Consequently, the study of transport at the macro- and nanoscales ...