Solid or liquid? Solidification of a nanoconfined liquid under nonequilibrium conditions

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2006-07-18

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Patil, Shivprasad
MATEİ, George
Oral, Ahmet
Hoffmann, Peter M.

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There has been a long-standing debate about the physical state and possible phase transformations of confined liquids. In this report, we show that a model-confined liquid can behave both as a Newtonian liquid with very little change in its dynamics and as a pseudosolid, depending solely on the rate of approach of the confining surfaces. Thus, the confined liquid does not exhibit any confinement-induced solidification in thermodynamic equilibrium. Instead, solidification is induced kinetically when the two confining surfaces are approached with a minimum critical rate. This critical rate is surprisingly slow (on the order of 6 angstrom/s), explaining the frequent observation of confinement-induced solidification.

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Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, General Materials Science, Surfaces and Interfaces, Condensed Matter Physics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37504

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LANGMUIR

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https://doi.org/10.1021/la060504w

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S. Patil, G. MATEİ, A. Oral, and P. M. Hoffmann, “Solid or liquid? Solidification of a nanoconfined liquid under nonequilibrium conditions,” LANGMUIR, pp. 6485–6488, 2006, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37504.