MEMSDUKEPRATT School of engineering


publications by Stefano Curtarolo.


Papers Published

  1. Ancilotto, F. and Curtarolo, S. and Toigo, F. and Cole, M.W., Evidence concerning drying behavior of Ne near a Cs surface, Physical Review Letters, vol. 87 no. 20 (2001), pp. 206103 - 1 [PhysRevLett.87.206103] .
    (last updated on 2007/04/06)

    Abstract:
    A density functional (DF) approach and grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations were performed to account for the properties of Ne adsorbed on a Cs surface. It was shown that a wetting transition for the Ne/Cs can be determined if the ab initio potential is used to describe the fluid-substrate interaction.

    Keywords:
    Drying;Cesium;Probability density function;Monte Carlo methods;Adsorption;Vapor pressure;Wetting;Mathematical models;

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