This article is devoted to the description of surface tension and physical adsorption in pure liquids and solutions from the molecular standpoint. It is based upon the methods of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.

Molecular Theory of Surface Tension in Liquids

The contact angle is one of the most sensitive experimental values describing a junction between three phases, being influenced by the composition and properties of contacting media as well as the ...

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Contact angles: history of over 200 years of open questions

During the past 20 years or so one of the regions of conspicuous growth in the field of physical chemistry has been the study of the structure and behaviour of water and aqueous solutions. There are practical reasons, for example technical and biological, for this interest, but it is also true that the complexity of water as a liquid provides its own motive to the rcsearch worker. It is unlikely that we would spend so much time in the study of water if it were as simple a liquid as Argon. However, strange though the behaviour of liquid water is, it is probably not as strange as it has sometimes been thought to be. The thermal “anomalies” of water and the abnormal “Poly-water” Seem rather likely to fade out of the scientific scene, as have other stimulating but nonviable scientific myths.

Structure at the Free Surface of Water and Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions

The molecular weight dependence of polymer surface tension

An approximate statistical theory is used to investigate the nature of the density transition curve in passing from a one component liquid phase to the equilibrium vapor phase. This density curve is related thermodynamically to the surface tension, the surface energy, the location of the surface of tension, and to the dependence of surface tension on curvature.

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The calculation of surface tension from intermolecular forces