molecular dynamics simulation has been performed to analyze the effect of the presence of gold nanoparticle on dynamics of kob-anderson binary lennard-jones (blj) mixture upon supercooling within the framework of the mode coupling theory of the dynamic glass transition. the presence of gold nanoparticle has a direct effect on the liquid structure and causes the peaks of the radial distribution ...

The structure of pure liquid tetrahydrofuran (THF) has been investigated via Monte Carlo simulations in the wake of a previous Empirical Potential Structure Refinement (EPSR) study on that liquid (Bowron, D.T.; Finney, J.L.; Soper, A.K. (2006) J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 5119). The molecules are all-atoms rigid structures and the intermolecular potential used is described for the classical 6-12 Len...

The liquid structure of the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate, [BMIM]PF(6), was investigated by neutron diffraction with H/D substitution method, where the hydrogen atoms in the imidazolium ring were partially deuterated. The local structures around the ring hydrogen atoms in liquid are very similar to those estimated from the crystal structure.

We report on x-ray absorption studies of the structure of the liquid phase of a prototypical phase-change material Ge2Sb2Te5 . We demonstrate that the local structure of liquid Ge2Sb2Te5 is very similar to that of amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 . Ge atoms in the liquid phase are found to be covalently bonded suggesting a semiconducting nature of the melt.

Francis W. Starr, Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel, and H. Eugene Stanley Center for Polymer Studies, Center for Computational Science, and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 USA Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (CEA-CNRS), CEA/Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, Cedex, France An open question is whether the liquid and glassy phases of water are thermodynamically distinct or continuous...

We present an overview of recent advances in the understanding of foam structure and energy and their dependence on liquid volume fraction. We consider liquid foams in equilibrium for which the relevant energy is surface energy. Measurements of osmotic pressure can be used to determine this as a function of liquid fraction in good agreement with results from computer simulations. This approach ...

Using video microscopy, we investigated melting of a two-dimensional colloidal system, formed by glycerol droplets at the free surface of a nematic liquid crystalline layer. Analyzing different structure correlation functions, we conclude that melting occurs through an intermediate hexatic phase, as predicted by the KosterlitzThouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young(KTHNY) theory. However, the temperatur...