@article {883,
	title = {Shearing of nanoscopic bridges in two-component thin liquid layers between chemically patterned walls},
	journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
	volume = {121},
	number = {13},
	year = {2004},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 857VETimes Cited: 4Cited Reference Count: 24},
	month = {Oct},
	pages = {6508-6517},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Bridge phases associated with a phase transition between two liquid phases occur when a two-component liquid mixture is confined between chemically patterned walls. In the bulk the liquid mixture with components A, B undergoes phase separation into an A-rich phase and a B-rich phase. The walls bear stripes attractive to A. In the bridge phase A-rich and B-rich regions alternate. Grand canonical Monte Carlo studies are performed with the alignment between stripes on opposite walls varied. Misalignment of the stripes places the nanoscopic liquid bridges under shear strain. The bridges exert a Hookean restoring force on the walls for small displacements from equilibrium. As the strain increases there are deviations from Hooke{\textquoteright}s law. Eventually there is an abrupt yielding of the bridges. Molecular dynamics simulations show the bridges form or disintegrate on time scales which are fast compared to wall motion and transport of molecules into or from the confined space. Some interesting possible applications of the phenomena are discussed. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.},
	keywords = {BEHAVIOR, CAPILLARY CONDENSATION, FILMS, FLUID, INDUCED PHASE-TRANSITIONS, MIXTURES, PORES},
	isbn = {0021-9606},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000224146300049},
	author = {Hemming, C. J. and Patey, G. N.}
}
@article {704,
	title = {Surfactant-stabilized structures in confined liquids},
	journal = {Journal of Chemical Physics},
	volume = {119},
	number = {16},
	year = {2003},
	note = {ISI Document Delivery No.: 731BWTimes Cited: 5Cited Reference Count: 48},
	month = {Oct},
	pages = {8676-8685},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {Grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations are used to investigate the effect of surfactant on binary Lennard-Jones mixtures confined between planar, chemically patterned surfaces. Near bulk demixing coexistence, confined binary mixtures form liquid "bridges" joining specifically patterned surface areas. The length of these bridges is restricted by the unfavorable liquid-liquid interfacial tension, and in the present paper we show that this constraint can be significantly reduced by adding surfactant to the system. This leads to very extended liquid bridges and to other structures not found in the simple two-component case. We give a qualitative discussion of the surface-surfactant -induced liquid structures and examine in detail the associated forces acting between the plates. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.},
	keywords = {CAPILLARY CONDENSATION, DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL METHOD, HYDROPHILIC SURFACES, HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES, INTERACTION FORCES, LAMELLAR PHASES, LENNARD-JONES FLUID, MORPHOLOGICAL WETTING TRANSITIONS, PHASE-TRANSITIONS, SLIT-LIKE PORES},
	isbn = {0021-9606},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000185865500048},
	author = {Overduin, S. D. and Patey, G. N.}
}
