Dynamical Ginzburg-Landau theory is applied to the study of thermal effects of motion of interfaces that appear after different phase transitions. These effects stem from the existence of the surface internal energy, entropy and temperature gradients in the interfacial transition region. Evolution equations for the interfacial motion are derived. For the experimental verification of the thermal...

acceptor/donor or Lewis acid-base (AB) terms, in regulating not only the rates of these reactions but also in determining the solubility behavior of the crystal, S,. For a considerable number of compounds, the solubilities show a general increase as the solidlliquid interfacial tensions (~sL) decrease, but despite suggestions to the contrary, the relationship between ysL and logs, should not ne...

Organic/metal interfaces play crucial roles in the formation of intermolecular networks on metal surfaces and the performance of organic devices. Although their purity and uniformity have profound effects on the operation of organic devices, the formation of organic thin films with high interfacial uniformity on metal surfaces has suffered from the intrinsic limitation of molecular ordering imp...

the purpose of the present paper is to develop light beam method to measurement of interfacial area in a rectangular gas-liquid bubble column. total interfacial area can be determined in bubble column filled by transparent liquid by light transmission method. according to pervious researches, the fraction of parallel light is function of interfacial area and optical path length that these two p...

Citation: Zheng J, Yan P, Gu M, Wagner MJ, Hays KA, Chen J, Li X, Wang C, Zhang J-G, Liu J and Xiao J (2015) Interfacial reaction dependent performance of hollow carbon nanosphere – sulfur composite as a cathode for Li-S battery. Front. Energy Res. 3:25. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2015.00025 Interfacial reaction dependent performance of hollow carbon nanosphere – sulfur composite as a cathode for Li-S ...

We develop a free energy model that describes two key thermodynamic properties, the osmotic pressureΠ and the linear elastic shear modulusG′p (i.e. plateau storage modulus), of concentratedmonodisperse emulsionswhichhave isotropic, disordered, droplet structures, and are stabilized using ionic surfactants. This model effectively incorporates the concept of random close packing or jamming of rep...

The hydraulics of stepped spillways with flat steps has been studied for the last three decades, including for embankment dam slopes, but studies of alternative stepped designs are limited. In this study, a pooled stepped spillway was investigated in a relatively large-size facility, and three different pool wall porosities were tested. The flow patterns, the macroand microscopic air-water flow...

The effect of molecular architecture of a surfactant, particularly the attachment position of benzene sulfonate on the hexadecane backbone, at the decane-water interface was investigated using atomistic MD simulations. We consider a series of surfactant isomers in the family of alkyl benzene sulfonates, denoted by m-C16, indicating a benzene sulfonate group attached to the mth carbon in a hexad...

A perfect ohmic contact is formed at the interface of indium tin oxide (ITO) and N,N'-di(naphthalene-1-yl)-N,N'-diphenyl-benzidine (NPB) using ReO3 as the interfacial layer. The hole injection efficiency is close to 100% at the interface, which is much higher than those for interfacial layers of 1,4,5,8,9,11-hexaazatripheylene hexacarbonitrile (HAT-CN) and MoO3. Interestingly, the ReO3 and MoO3...

In this study, the effect of diffusion on gold-chromium film durability was determined from interfacial fracture energy measurements on laboratory samples aged to simulate long term service. The samples were prepared by sputter deposition of gold films and chromium adhesive layers on sapphire substrates. Some films were left in the as-deposited condition while others were given an accelerated a...