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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 22, Issue 22, Pages 12544-12564Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01411g
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- RC H2020 Advanced Grant ENRICO [694807]
- Regional University Computing Center Kaiserslautern (RHRK) under the grant TUK-MTD
- High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) [MMHBF2]
- Boltzmann-Zuse Society of Computational Molecular Engineering (BZS)
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Interfacial properties of binary fluid mixtures were studied using both molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and density gradient theory (DGT). The focus of the study is on the relation of the interfacial properties to the phase diagram of the mixture. Two binary Lennard-Jones mixtures were investigated in a wide range of states: a highly asymmetric mixture (type III), which exhibits vapour-liquid equilibria (VL1E and VL2E), liquid-liquid equilibria (L1L2E), a three-phase equilibrium (VL1L2E), and supercritical fluid-fluid equilibria (F1F2E), and, as a reference, an ideal mixture (type I). The studied interfacial properties are: the surface tension, the relative adsorption, the width of the interfacial region, and the enrichment of the low-boiling component, on which we set a focus. Enrichment was observed at VL(1)interfaces; and, to a small extent, also at L(1)L(2)interfaces; but not at the supercritical F(1)F(2)interfaces. The large enrichment found at VL(1)interfaces of the type III mixture can be interpreted as a wetting transition: approaching the VL1L2E three-phase line from the VL(1)side, the enrichment gets stronger and can be interpreted as precursor of the second liquid phase L-2. However, the actual existence of a three-phase line in the phase diagram is no prerequisite for an enrichment. The enrichment is found to be highly temperature-dependent and increases with decreasing temperature.
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