Lattice study of a Janus interface
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
A lattice gas simulation of water between a hydrophobic plate and a hydrophilic plate (a Janus interface) shows large fluctuations in the number of liquid cells in contact with the hydrophobic plate, and a power spectrum similar to the experimental results that Zhang, Zhu, and Granick found [X. Y. Zhang, Y. X. Zhu, and S. Granick, Science 295, 663 (2002)] when measuring viscous response in a Janus system. Study of the spatial Fourier modes of the liquid-vapor interface suggests that interface fluctuations with length scales between approximately 1.5 and 20 nm cause the effects observed in the simulation.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0303265,
title = {Lattice study of a Janus interface},
author = {Thomas A. McCormick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0303265},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physical Review E