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Microscopic model for spreading of a two-dimensional monolayer

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In this article, the behavior of a monolayer, which occupies initially a bounded region on an ideal crystalline surface and then evolves in time due to random hopping of the monolayers particles, is studied.
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This article is published in Journal of Molecular Liquids.The article was published on 1998-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Monolayer & Dewetting.

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Precursor films in wetting phenomena

TL;DR: The available experimental observations of microscopic, i.e. molecularly thin, films in various liquid-on-solid and solid- on-solid systems, as well as the corresponding theoretical models and studies aimed at understanding their formation and spreading dynamics are reviewed.
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Molecularly-Thin Precursor Films of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids on Mica

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used tapping mode atomic force microscopy to investigate the spreading of molecularly thin precursor films emerging from drops of ionic liquids that partially wet smooth mica surfaces.
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Wetting on structured substrates

TL;DR: In this article, a model for the dynamics of spreading of monolayers on homogeneous substrates is presented, which reveals a complex spatio-temporal structure of the extracted monolayer, which includes the emergence of interfaces and scaling properties of density profiles.
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A biased intruder in a dense quiescent medium: looking beyond the force?velocity relation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the dynamics of a biased intruder (BI) pulled by a constant force F through a dense molecular crowding environment modelled as a lattice gas of unbiased, randomly moving hard core particles.
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Lateral diffusion in substrate-supported lipid monolayers as a function of ambient relative humidity.

TL;DR: Many biological processes such as vesicle fusion and recognition processes involve dehydration/hydration cycles, and it can be expected that the water activity significantly affects the kinetics of these processes in a manner similar to that examined in the present work.
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Physical chemistry of surfaces

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the nature and properties of liquid interfaces, including the formation of a new phase, nucleation and crystal growth, and the contact angle of surfaces of solids.
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Wetting: statics and dynamics

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an attempt towards a unified picture with special emphasis on certain features of "dry spreading": (a) the final state of a spreading droplet need not be a monomolecular film; (b) the spreading drop is surrounded by a precursor film, where most of the available free energy is spent; and (c) polymer melts may slip on the solid and belong to a separate dynamical class, conceptually related to the spreading of superfluids.
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Lattice-Gas Automata for the Navier-Stokes Equation

TL;DR: It is shown that a class of deterministic lattice gases with discrete Boolean elements simulates the Navier-Stokes equation, anc, and can be used to design simple, massively parallel computing machines.
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Physics at Surfaces

TL;DR: Physics at Surfaces as discussed by the authors is a unique graduate-level introduction to the physics and chemical physics of solid surfaces and atoms and molecules that interact with solid surfaces, and it provides a synthesis of the entire field of surface physics from the perspective of a modern condensed matter physicist with a healthy interest in chemical physics.
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