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Nudged elastic band calculation of the binding potential for liquids at interfaces
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posted on 2017-07-04, 13:36 authored by Oleg Buller, Walter Tewes, Andrew ArcherAndrew Archer, Andreas Heuer, Uwe Thiele, Svetlana V. GurevichThe wetting behavior of a liquid on solid substrates is governed by the nature of the effective interaction between the liquid-gas and the solid-liquid interfaces, which is described by the binding or wetting potential $g(h)$ which is an excess free energy per unit area that depends on the liquid film height $h$. Given a microscopic theory for the liquid, to determine $g(h)$ one must calculate the free energy for liquid films of any given value of $h$; i.e. one needs to create and analyze out-of-equilibrium states, since at equilibrium there is a unique value of $h$, specified by the temperature and chemical potential of the surrounding gas. Here we introduce a Nudged Elastic Band (NEB) approach to calculate $g(h)$ and illustrate the method by applying it in conjunction with a microscopic lattice density functional theory for the liquid. We show too that the NEB results are identical to those obtained with an established method based on using a fictitious additional potential to stabilize the non-equilibrium states. The advantages of the NEB approach are discussed.
Funding
This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft within the Transregional Collaborative Research Center TRR 61
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- Mathematical Sciences
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The Journal of Chemical PhysicsVolume
147Issue
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BULLER, O. ...et al., 2017. Nudged elastic band calculation of the binding potential for liquids at interfaces. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 147 (2), 024701.Version
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