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We investigate the properties of water along the liquid/vapor coexistence line in the supercooled regime down to the no-man's land. Extensive molecular dynamics simulations of the TIP4P/2005 liquid/vapor interface in the range 198 -- 348 K…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-15 Alexander Gorfer , Christoph Dellago , Marcello Sega

The water/electrode interface under an applied bias potential is a challenging out-of-equilibrium phenomenon, which is difficult to accurately model at the atomic scale. In this study, we employ a combined approach of Density Functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-14 Graciele M. Arvelos , Marivi Fernández-Serra , Alexandre R. Rocha , Luana S. Pedroza

The surface charge of a water interface determines many fundamental processes in physical chemistry and interface science, and it has been intensively studied for over a hundred years. We summarize experimental methods to characterize the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Yuki Uematsu

The contribution to the free energy for a film of liquid of thickness $h$ on a solid surface, due to the interactions between the solid-liquid and liquid-gas interfaces is given by the binding potential, $g(h)$. The precise form of $g(h)$…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-08 Adam P. Hughes , Uwe Thiele , Andrew J. Archer

Density functional theory (DFT) embedding provides a formally exact framework for interfacing correlated wave-function theory (WFT) methods with lower-level descriptions of electronic structure. Here, we report techniques to improve the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jason D. Goodpaster , Taylor A. Barnes , Frederick R. Manby , Thomas F. Miller

Density-functional theory (DFT) has been widely used to study water and ice for at least 20 years. However, the reliability of different DFT exchange-correlation (xc) functionals for water remains a matter of considerable debate. This is…

We assess the capabilities of hydrodynamic density functional theory (DFT) to predict mass transfer across vapor-liquid interfaces by studying the response of an initially equilibrated pure component vapor-liquid system to the localized…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 B. Bursik , F. Bender , R. Stierle , G. Bauer , J. Gross

Combining classical electrodynamics and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we develop a general and rigorous theoretical framework that describes the energetics of metal surfaces under high electric fields. We show that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-22 Andreas Kyritsakis , Ekaterina Baibuz , Ville Jansson , Flyura Djurabekova

In this paper, we investigate the adsorption of water monomer on fluorinated graphene using state-of-the-art first principles methods within the framework of density functional theory (DFT). Four different methods are employed to describe…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-28 Yong Yang , Fuchi Liu , Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

We develop and verify a phase-sensitive second harmonic generation spectroscopic scheme that allows for direct determination of the absolute surface charge density and surface potential of a water interface without need of prior interfacial…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Laetitia Dalstein , Kuo-Yang Chiang , Yu-Chieh Wen

We consider the surface pressure of a colloid-laden liquid interface. As micron-sized particles of suitable wettability can be irreversibly bound to the liquid interface on experimental timescales, we use the canonical ensemble to derive an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-07 R. Mears , I. Muntz , J. H. J. Thijssen

Computational studies of liquid water and its phase transition into vapor have traditionally been performed using classical water models. Here we utilize the Deep Potential methodology -- a machine learning approach -- to study this…

Density functional theory (DFT) is an efficient instrument for describing a wide range of nanoscale phenomena: wetting transition, capillary condensation, adsorption, etc. In this paper, we suggest a method for obtaining the equilibrium…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Yuriy Kanygin , Irina Nesterova , Pavel Lomovitskiy , Aleksey Khlyupin

Charged colloidal monolayers at the interface between water and air (or oil) are used in a large number of chemical, physical and biological applications. Although a considerable experimental and theoretical effort has been devoted in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-03 Aviv Karnieli , Tomer Markovich , David Andelman

An anisotropic interlayer potential that can accurately describe the van der Waals interaction of the water-graphene interface is presented. The force field is benchmarked against the many-body dispersion-corrected density functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Zhicheng Feng , Yuanpeng Yao , Jianxin Liu , Bozhao Wu , Ze Liu , Wengen Ouyang

The work presents the detailed analysis of the water dimer properties. Their parameters are investigated on the basis of a multipole interaction potential extended up to the quadrupole--quadrupole and dipole--octupole terms. All main…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-05-02 P. V. Makhlaichuk , M. P. Malomuzh , I. V. Zhyganiuk

Interfaces between demixed fluid phases of binary mixtures of hard platelets are investigated using density-functional theory. The corresponding excess free energy functional is calculated within a fundamental measure theory adapted to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-14 M. Bier , L. Harnau , S. Dietrich

At model water--vapor and water--solid interfaces, molecular ordering leads to charge oscillations and, thereby, to a spatially varying electrostatic potential. Atomistic simulations indicate that such ordering leads to an electric…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 David Fertig , Adrian L. Usler , Mathijs Janssen

A theory is presented which allows us to quantitatively calculate the excess surface tension of acid solutions. The H^+, in the form of hydronium ion, is found to be strongly adsorbed to the solution-air interface. To account for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-04 Alexandre P. dos Santos , Yan Levin

We introduce an accurate and efficient method for characterizing surface wetting and interfacial properties, such as the contact angle made by a liquid droplet on a solid surface, and the vapor-liquid surface tension of a fluid. The method…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-14 Hao Jiang , Suruchi Fialoke , Zachariah Vicars , Amish J. Patel