In the present work, a generalized lattice-gas model to study multilayer adsorption of interacting polyatomic species on heterogeneous surfaces is introduced. Using an approximation in the spirit of the well-known Brunauer–Emmet–Teller (BET) model, a new theoretical isotherm is obtained in...

The size selection of nanodots during the growth is studied by using a reaction kinetic model, where reaction rates depend on the dot size. The characteristic feature of the reaction rates is the energetics, where the free energy of dots has a minimum at the certain dot size. The model equations...

A reaction kinetic model is proposed for height selection of heteroepitaxially growing nanometer-thick quantum dots. The model describes the growth by a set of rate equations for the combined size and height distributions of the dots. In addition to nucleation and growth, the model includes a...

We have derived an efficient expression in closed form for the surface entropy of liquid metals from the statistical mechanical theory of zeroth order involving hard sphere model interaction. Using this expression we have investigated the surface entropy for liquid less simple metals namely Zn,...

The correlation function of a one-dimensional interface over a random substrate, bound to the substrate by a pressure term, is studied by Monte-Carlo simulation. It is found that the height correlation 〈h<Subscript>i</Subscript>;h<Subscript>i+j</Subscript> 〉, averaged over the substrate disorder, fits a form $ae^{-(j/b)^c}$ to a...</subscript></subscript>

Density profiles of a LJ vapor near a weakly attractive surface with long-range fluid wall potential was studied along the pore coexistence curve. There are two localized density maxima near the pore wall: the first one is caused by localization of the molecules in the minimum of the fluid-wall...

In literature, surface tension has been investigated mainly from a Thermodynamics standpoint, more rarely with kinetic methods. In the present work, surface tension of drops is studied in the framework of kinetic theory, starting from the Sutherland approximation to Van Der Waals interaction...

A phenomenological qualitative theory of elastic effects is used to examine wetting near critical points in the solid state.