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Relaxation of the Chemical Bond

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Surface energetics, including the terms of surface energy, surface free energy, surface tension, surface stress, and their correlations, plays the central role in surface and nanosolid sciences. Despite confusions about these terms, the surface energetics is of great importance to a qualitative and sometimes even quantitative understanding of the microscopic and mesoscopic processes at a surface of liquid or solid.

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Sun, C.Q. (2014). Liquid and Solid Skins. In: Relaxation of the Chemical Bond. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 108. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-21-7_24

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