2000/10/18 by A. Ciach, Ciach, A., V. Babin +5
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications #Material Dynamics and Properties #Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0010248
38 pages, 15 figures (revtex)
arxiv created 2000/10/18 · openalex publication_date 2000/10/18 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Systems in which particles can self-assemble into mono- or bilayers can form variety of stable and metastable structures on a nanometer length scale. For this reason confinement has a particularly strong effect on such systems. We discuss in some detail effects of confinement on lamellar and cubic phases with double-diamond structure. Structural deformations in slit geometry are described for large and small unit cells of the structure (in units of the thickness of the monolayer) and for various strengths of interactions with the confining surfaces. We show how the structural changes of the confined fluid are reflected in the measurable solvation force between the confining walls.