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Adsorption and phase transitions in a two-site associating Lennard-Jones fluid confined to energetically heterogeneous slit-like pores; application of the density functional method

Beatriz Millan Malo1, Orest Pizio2,3, Andrzej Patrykiejew2 and Stefan Sokolowski2

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A density functional approach is used to study adsorption and phase behaviour of the two-bonding-site associating Lennard-Jones (LJ) fluid in slit-like pores with energetically heterogeneous walls. Phase behaviour of strongly and weakly associating, polymerizing fluid in the pores with a periodic surface potential, characterized by different strengths and the spacings between adjacent minima, as well as different pore widths is discussed. A comparison of the results obtained for strongly and weakly associating fluids elucidates the role of bonding between fluid species in the pore-filling mechanism. An interplay between layering transitions, the formation of an intermediate `bridge' phase and the final capillary condensation in the pores with energetically corrugated walls is discussed in detail.


PACS

68.03.Fg Evaporation and condensation of liquids

64.60.-i General studies of phase transitions

Subjects

Soft matter, liquids and polymers

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Condensed matter: structural, mechanical & thermal

Dates

Issue 7 (19 February 2001)

Received 29 September 2000, in final form 18 January 2001



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