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Fundamentals of Interfacial Properties

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Already in the eighteenth century it was realized that the capillary effect of fluids must arise from attractive forces between the constituents of matter, the molecules. This realization led to the idea that examination of the capillary effects could tell something about the attractive forces and possibly also about the molecules. Also modem physicists are interested in the explanation of the capillary phenomena in terms of intermolecular forces. TMs chapter highlights some of the applications of the square gradient theory of van der Waals [1] in modeling the behaviour of fluids near interfaces. For a more extensive discussion of this theory we refer to Rowlinson and Widom [2].

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  1. Department of Chemical Technology, Delft University of Technology Faculty of Applied Sciences, Julianalaan 136, 2628 BL, Delft, The Netherlands

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

    Erdogan Kiran

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

    Pablo G. Debenedetti

  3. Department of Chemical Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Cor J. Peters

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Cornelisse, P.M.W., Peters, C.J. (2000). Fundamentals of Interfacial Properties. In: Kiran, E., Debenedetti, P.G., Peters, C.J. (eds) Supercritical Fluids. NATO Science Series, vol 366. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3929-8_7

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