A recent study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences redefines how liquids maintain their contact with solid surfaces -also known as wettability - from an intermolecular force ...

The liquid state of matter is an intermediate phase between solid and gas. Like the particles of a solid, particles in a liquid are subject to intermolecular attraction; however, liquid particles ...

DIFFERENT mathematical methods1–5 have been used to express the conception of the ‘structure of a liquid’ in exact formulæ, mainly with the intention of accounting for the X-ray diffraction ...

I was thinking about the claim that water wetter increases flow rate by lowering water's viscosity, and it hit me that soap decreases surface tension of water drastically, almost completely ...

Apr 08, 2022: Researchers redefine how liquid and solid layers stick together based on molecular forces (Nanowerk News) A recent study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences redefines how ...

Usually, both the potential energy and the force increase as the intermolecular distance r goes to zero. Repulsion is thus modelled through concave functions, such as 1/ r n (with n = 12 for the ...

The longest hydrocarbons have very high boiling points. They leave the column as a hot liquid called bitumen. Shorter hydrocarbon molecules have weaker intermolecular forces and lower boiling ...