Evaluation of a surface equation of state generally involves an evaluation of its ability to represent raw experimental data, or information derived from such data, after the parameters of the equation have been adjusted to optimize this representation, followed by an evaluation of the physical reasonableness of the optimizing parameters in terms of the physical model on which the equation of s...

Label-free detection of biomolecules using an optical whispering-gallery mode sensor in a microelectrofluidic channel is simulated. Negatively charged bovine serum albumin is considered as the model protein analyte. The analyte transport in aqueous solution is controlled by an externally applied electrical field. The finite element method is employed for solving the equations of the charged spe...

A procedure suggested by Vvedensky for obtaining continuum equations as the coarse-grained limit of discrete models is applied to the restricted solid-on-solid model with both adsorption and desorption. Using an expansion of the master equation, discrete Langevin equations are derived; these agree quantitatively with direct simulation of the model. From these, a continuum differential equation ...

The thermodynamic stability limits of specific adsorption at the polarized liquid metal/ electrolyte solution interface are studied. Here the reversible starting and disappearance of the electroadsorption effects at a threshold potential are revealed, which are the result of Gibbs stability violation. The stability limits are determined by the bifurcation manifold of the critical states for whi...

We study the effects of generalised surface disorder on the mon-omer-monomer model of heterogeneous catalysis, where disorder is implemented by allowing different adsorption rates for each lattice site. By mapping the system in the reaction-controlled limit onto a kinetic Ising model, we derive the rate equations for the one and two-spin correlation functions. There is good agreement between th...

With the example of the capillary condensation of Lennard-Jones fluid in nanopores ranging from 1 to 10 nm, we show that the non-local density functional theory (NLDFT) with properly chosen parameters of intermolecular interactions bridges the scale gap from molecular simulations to macroscopic thermodynamics. On the one hand, NLDFT correctly approximates the results of Monte Carlo simulations ...

The optical technique of surface plasmon resonance phase imaging (SPR-PI) is implemented in a linear microarray format for real-time measurements of surface bioaffinity adsorption processes. SPR-PI measures the phase shift of p-polarized light incident at the SPR angle reflected from a gold thin film in an ATR Kretschmann geometry by creating an interference fringe image on the interface with a...

Wheat, shelled corn and rice are the most popular grown cereal grains and rapeseed (canola) is the most popular grown oilseed in the world. Thorough literature surveys reveal that a large number of publications contain EMC/ERH data for these grains and oilseed. From these publications, experimental data points are extracted, forming data sub-sets suitable for evaluating the isotherm equations. ...

Equations are presented that model diffusion of a protein to the surface of a growing crystal in a convection-free environment. The equations apply to crystal growth solutions that contain both a protein and a protein precipitant. The solutions are assumed ternary and the equations include all four diffusion coefficients necessary for the full description of the diffusion process. The four diff...