On the Thermodynamic Stability of Confined Thin Films Under Shear

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Summary

Thin films of monatomic fluid constrained between two plane-parallel structured solid walls have been modeled by Monte Carlo simulation under conditions prevailing in high-precision measurements of surface forces, and only one is thermodynamically stable; the others are metastable.

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article
Published
1993-10-22
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Keywords

Monatomic ion, Metastability, Shear (geology), Materials science, Plane (geometry)

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