Peter T. Cummings

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the structural characteristics of confined squalane and tetracosane under shear flow conditions and found that the wall spacing is close to an integral multiple of the molecular diameter.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between the molecular architecture and the viscous behavior of liquid alkanes has been investigated using massively parallel supercomputers and an efficient parallel algorithm, and the authors have carried out systematic studies of the rheological properties of a variety of model liquid alkane ranging from linear to singly branched and multiplybranched alkanes.

TL;DR: In this article, a molecular-based formalism for infinitely dilute supercritical nonelectrolyte solutions is extended to electrolyte solutions by establishing rigorous connections between the microscopic behavior of the solvent around individual ionic species and their macroscopic solvation behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, the density dependence of the constants along the Tr=T/Tc=1.05 isotherm, and the temperature dependence along the ρr=ρ/ρc = 1.5 isochore were determined using the simple point charge, the Pettitt-Rossky and the Fumi-Tosi models for the water-water, the ion-water and the ion ion interactions.

TL;DR: This work carries out molecular dynamics simulations to study the interfacial forces acting on a slab of liquid water surrounded by vacuum using the Gaussian charge polarizable (GCP) model, and finds that the induced dipole interactions and the permanent dipoles interactions, as well as the cross interactions, have positive contributions to gamma, and therefore contribute stability to the interface.