Interfacial magnetoelectric coupling is a viable path to achieve electrical writing of magnetic information in spintronic devices. For the prototypical Fe/BaTiO₃ system, only tiny changes of the interfacial Fe magnetic moment upon reversal of the BaTiO₃ dielectric polarization have been predicted so far. Here, by using X-ray magnetic circular dichroism in combination with high-resolution electr...

Abstract: Interface between matrix/coating or coating/coating in fact represents a very complicate 6 thin interfacial layer. So interface model is necessary to avoid the difficulty on considering such a 7 complicate thin layer in analysis. Classic interface model and cohesive model have been widely used 8 in stress analysis of coating materials, though they cannot represent the effect of very t...

The metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) diode is the most useful device in the study of semiconductor surfaces. The current-voltage data of the metal-insulatorsemiconductor Schottky diode are simulated using thermionic emission diffusion equation taking into account the interfacial layer parameters. The calculated current–voltage data are fitted into ideal thermionic emission diffusion equation...

We investigated in laboratory column experiments, the aqueous-phase transport of four n-alcohols (n-hexanol-nnonanol), three chlorinated aromatic compounds (chlorobenzene, o-dichlorobenzene, and o-chlorophenol), and two alkylbenzenes (ethylbenzene and p-xylene) in a waterunsaturated porous medium (sand). The influence of gasphase partitioning and interfacial adsorption on solute retardation dur...

Anyone who has enjoyed a glass of wine has undoubtedly noticed the regular pattern of liquid beads that fall along the inside of the glass, or 'tears of wine.' The phenomenon is the result of a flow against gravity along the liquid film on the glass, which is induced by an interfacial tension gradient. It is generally accepted that the interfacial tension gradient is due to a composition gradie...

Phase separation can be induced in a colloidal dispersion by adding non-adsorbing polymers. Depletion of polymer around the colloidal particles induces an effective attraction, leading to demixing at sufficient polymer concentration. This communication reviews theoretical and experimental work carried out on the polymer-mediated attraction between spherical colloids and the resulting phase sepa...

Drainage of water from the region between an advancing probe tip and a flat sample is reconsidered under the assumption that the tip and sample surfaces are both coated by a thin water "interphase" (of width approximately a few nanometers) whose viscosity is much higher than that of the bulk liquid. A formula derived by solving the Navier-Stokes equations allows one to extract an interphase vis...

The interfacial tension of a liquid droplet surrounded by another liquid in the presence of microscopic ions is studied as a function of the droplet radius. An analytical expression for the interfacial tension is obtained within a linear Poisson-Boltzmann theory and compared with numerical results from nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann theory. The excess liquid-liquid interfacial tension with respect...

Demulsification is an aggressive phase-separation phenomenon of stable emulsions. Several studies have examined demulsification by chemical reactions using external stimuli, such as temperature variation, pH variation, and light irradiation. This study focused on the interfacial and emulsification properties of light-responsive surfactants because the use of light as an external stimulus is rel...

In this work, we derive the asymptotic expansion of the velocity field of a small deformable droplet immersed in an incompressible Newtonian fluid. Using an appropriate physical scaling of the surface tension with respect to the droplet volume we show that the first order of the asymptotic can be expressed in terms of the velocity field in absence of the droplet and a new kind of moment tensor ...