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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 121, Issue 24, Pages 12632-12639Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1826037
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Using a coarse-grained bead-spring model of flexible polymer chains, the structure of a polymeric nanodroplet adsorbed on a chemically decorated flat wall is investigated by means of molecular dynamics simulation. We consider sessile drops on a lyophilic (attractive for the monomers) region of circular shape with radius R-D while the remaining part of the substrate is lyophobic. The variation of the droplet shape, including its contact angle, with R-D is studied, and the density profiles across these droplets also are obtained. In addition, the interaction of droplets adsorbed on two walls forming a slit pore with two lyophilic circular regions just opposite of one another is investigated, paying attention to the formation of a liquid bridge between both walls. A central result of our study is the measurement of the force between the two substrate walls at varying wall separation as well as the kinetics of droplet merging. Our results are compared to various phenomenological theories developed for liquid droplets of mesoscopic rather than nanoscopic size. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
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