Living cells are spatially organized by compartments that can nucleate, grow, and dissolve.
Compartmentalization can emerge by phase separation, leading to the formation of droplets …

Understanding the microscopic structure and macroscopic properties of condensed matter
from a molecular perspective is important for both traditional and modern chemical …

Grain boundaries exhibit phase-like behavior in which their structure, chemistry and
properties may change discontinuously at critical values of thermodynamic parameters such …

It is shown that in any two‐phase mixture of fluids near their critical point, contact angles
against any third phase become zero in that one of the critical phases completely wets the …

We review the current state of knowledge of phase separation and phase equilibria in
porous materials. Our emphasis is on fundamental studies of simple fluids (composed of …

A comprehensive account of the phenomena that occur when simple gases interact with
surfaces, this text takes a fundamental perspective. Physical adsorption involves atomic or …

When a liquid droplet is put onto a surface, two situations distinguishable by the contact
angle may result. If the contact angle is zero, the droplet spreads across the surface, a …

When two fluid phases are near a critical point, one of them will be excluded from contact
with any third phase that happens to be present by a wetting film of the other critical phase. A …

Nickel-doped tungsten specimens were prepared with high purity chemicals and sintered.
Although activated sintering starts more than 400° C below the bulk eutectic temperature …

In this review we examine the influence of the line tension τ on droplets and particles at
surfaces. The line tension influences the nucleation behavior and contact angle of liquid …