Surface Melting of an n-Alkane Crystallite

Intramolecular and Lattice Melting in n-Alkane Monolayers: An Analog of Melting in Lipid Bilayers

Free-energy Barrier to Melting of Single-chain Polymer Crystallite

We report Monte Carlo simulations of the melting of a singlepolymer crystallite. We find that, unlike most atomic and molecular crystals, such crystallites can be heated appreciably above their melting temperature before they transform to the disordered ”coil” state. The surface of the superheated crystallite is found to be disordered. The thickness of the disordered layer increases with superh...

High - resolution ellipsometric study of an n - alkane film , dotriacontane , adsorbed on a SiO 2 surface

Molecular simulations of liquid-liquid interfacial properties: water-n-alkane and water-methanol-n-alkane systems.

Direct molecular dynamics simulations of the liquid-liquid interface of water-n-alkane and water-methanol-n-alkane systems have been performed in order to study the interfacial properties of these systems. The simulations were carried out using the NERD revised force field of Nath et al. for the n-alkanes, the simple point charge extended model for water, and the optimized potential for liquid ...

n-alkane profile of Argemone mexicana leaves.

An n-hexane extract of fresh, mature leaves of Argemone mexicana (Papaveraceae), containing thin-layer epicuticular waxes, has been analysed for the first time by TLC, IR and GLC using standard hydrocarbons. Seventeen long-chain alkanes (n-C18 to n-C34) were identified and quantified. Nonacosane (n-C29) was established as the n-alkane with the highest amount, whilst octadecane (n-C19) was the l...