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Zhao Y, Li W, Zhan S, Jin Z. Breakthrough pressure of oil displacement by water through the ultra-narrow kerogen pore throat from the Young-Laplace equation and molecular dynamic simulations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:17195-17209. [PMID: 35792334 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01643e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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As one common unconventional reservoir, shale plays a pivotal role to compensate the depletion of conventional oil resources. There are numerous nanoscale pores and ultra-narrow pore throats (sub 2 nm) in shale media. To displace oil through ultra-narrow pore throats by water, one needs to overcome excessively-high capillary pressure. Understanding the water-oil two-phase displacement process through pore throats is critical to numerical simulation on tight/shale oil exploitation and ultimate oil recovery estimation. In this work, we use molecular dynamics simulations to investigate oil (represented by n-octane) displacement by water through a ~2 nm kerogen (represented by Type II-C kerogen) pore throat. Besides, the applicability of the Young-Laplace equation to the ultra-narrow kerogen pore throat has been assessed. We find that although the Type II-C kerogen is generally oil-wet, water has an excellent displacement efficiency without the oil film on the substrate, thanks to the hydrogen bonding formed between water and heteroatoms (such as O, N, and S) on the kerogen surface. Unlike previous studies, the capillary pressure obtained from the widely used Young-Laplace equation shows a good agreement with the breakthrough pressure obtained from MD simulations for the ∼2 nm kerogen pore throat. Our work indicates that explicitly considering intermolecular interactions as well as atomistic and molecular level characteristics is imperative to study the two-phase displacement process through ultra-narrow pore throats.
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- Yinuo Zhao
- School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1H9, Canada.
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- School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1H9, Canada.
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- College of Energy, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China.,State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, China
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- School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1H9, Canada.
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Algaba J, Mendiboure B, Gómez-Álvarez P, Blas FJ. Density functional theory for the prediction of interfacial properties of molecular fluids within the SAFT-γ coarse-grained approach. RSC Adv 2022; 12:18821-18833. [PMID: 35873311 PMCID: PMC9241058 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra02162e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Recently, we have proposed the SAFT-VR Mie MF DFT approach [Algaba et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 11937–11948] to investigate systems that exhibit fluid–fluid interfaces. This formalism is based on the combination of the Statistical Associating Fluid Theory for attractive potentials of variable range using Mie intermolecular potential (SAFT-VR Mie) and a Density Functional Theory (DFT) treatment of the free energy. A mean-field approach is used to evaluate the attractive term, neglecting the pair correlations associated to attractions. This theory has been combined with reported SAFT-γ Coarse-Grained (CG) Mie force fields to provide an excellent description of the vapor–liquid interface of carbon dioxide and water pure fluids. The present work is a natural and necessary extension of this previous study. We assess the adequacy of the proposed methodology for dealing with inhomogeneous fluid systems of large complex molecules, in particular carbon tetrafluoride and sulfur hexafluoride greenhouse gases, the refrigerant 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-1-propene, and the long-chain n-decane and n-eicosane hydrocarbons. The obvious diversity of these fluids, their chemical and industrial interest, and the fact of that SAFT-γ CG Mie force fields have been reported for them justify such choice. With the aim of testing the theory, we perform Molecular Dynamics simulations in the canonical ensemble using the direct coexistence technique for the same models. We focus both on bulk, such as coexistence diagrams and vapor pressure curves, as well as interfacial properties, including surface tension. The comparison of the theoretical predictions with the computational results as well as with experimental data taken from the literature demonstrates the reliability and generalization of this method for dealing simultaneously with vapor–liquid equilibrium and interfacial phenomena. Hence, it appears as a potential tool for the interface analysis, with the main advantage over molecular simulation of low computational cost, and solving the experimental difficulties in accurately measuring the surface tension of certain systems. Comparison of the vapour–liquid surface tensions for substances studied in this work as obtained from SAFT-VR Mie DFT and experiments.![]()
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- Jesús Algaba
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ UK
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- Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et Leurs Reserviors, UMR5150, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour B. P. 1155 Pau Cedex 64014 France
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Ciencias Integradas, Universidad de Huelva 21007 Huelva Spain
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Ciencias Integradas, Universidad de Huelva 21007 Huelva Spain
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Garaizar A, Espinosa JR, Joseph JA, Collepardo-Guevara R. Kinetic interplay between droplet maturation and coalescence modulates shape of aged protein condensates. Sci Rep 2022; 12:4390. [PMID: 35293386 PMCID: PMC8924231 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08130-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Biomolecular condensates formed by the process of liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) play diverse roles inside cells, from spatiotemporal compartmentalisation to speeding up chemical reactions. Upon maturation, the liquid-like properties of condensates, which underpin their functions, are gradually lost, eventually giving rise to solid-like states with potential pathological implications. Enhancement of inter-protein interactions is one of the main mechanisms suggested to trigger the formation of solid-like condensates. To gain a molecular-level understanding of how the accumulation of stronger interactions among proteins inside condensates affect the kinetic and thermodynamic properties of biomolecular condensates, and their shapes over time, we develop a tailored coarse-grained model of proteins that transition from establishing weak to stronger inter-protein interactions inside condensates. Our simulations reveal that the fast accumulation of strongly binding proteins during the nucleation and growth stages of condensate formation results in aspherical solid-like condensates. In contrast, when strong inter-protein interactions appear only after the equilibrium condensate has been formed, or when they accumulate slowly over time with respect to the time needed for droplets to fuse and grow, spherical solid-like droplets emerge. By conducting atomistic potential-of-mean-force simulations of NUP-98 peptides-prone to forming inter-protein [Formula: see text]-sheets-we observe that formation of inter-peptide [Formula: see text]-sheets increases the strength of the interactions consistently with the loss of liquid-like condensate properties we observe at the coarse-grained level. Overall, our work aids in elucidating fundamental molecular, kinetic, and thermodynamic mechanisms linking the rate of change in protein interaction strength to condensate shape and maturation during ageing.
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- Adiran Garaizar
- Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
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- Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
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- Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK
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- Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK.
- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK.
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Garaizar A, Espinosa JR. Salt dependent phase behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins from a coarse-grained model with explicit water and ions. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:125103. [PMID: 34598583 DOI: 10.1063/5.0062687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Multivalent proteins and nucleic acids can self-assemble into biomolecular condensates that contribute to compartmentalize the cell interior. Computer simulations offer a unique view to elucidate the mechanisms and key intermolecular interactions behind the dynamic formation and dissolution of these condensates. In this work, we present a novel approach to include explicit water and salt in sequence-dependent coarse-grained (CG) models for proteins and RNA, enabling the study of biomolecular condensate formation in a salt-dependent manner. Our framework combines a reparameterized version of the HPS protein force field with the monoatomic mW water model and the mW-ion potential for NaCl. We show how our CG model qualitatively captures the experimental radius of the gyration trend of a subset of intrinsically disordered proteins and reproduces the experimental protein concentration and water percentage of the human fused in sarcoma (FUS) low-complexity-domain droplets at physiological salt concentration. Moreover, we perform seeding simulations as a function of salt concentration for two antagonist systems: the engineered peptide PR25 and poly-uridine/poly-arginine mixtures, finding good agreement with their reported in vitro phase behavior with salt concentration in both cases. Taken together, our work represents a step forward towards extending sequence-dependent CG models to include water and salt, and to consider their key role in biomolecular condensate self-assembly.
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- Adiran Garaizar
- Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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- Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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Granados-Bazán EL, Quiñones-Cisneros SE, Deiters UK. Interfacial properties of binary mixtures of Lennard-Jones chains in planar interfaces by molecular dynamics simulation. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:084704. [PMID: 33639748 DOI: 10.1063/5.0042340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Binary mixtures of fully flexible linear tangent chains composed of bonded Lennard-Jones interaction sites (monomers) were studied using the molecular dynamics simulation in the NVT ensemble. Their interfacial properties were investigated in planar interfaces by direct simulation of an explicit liquid film in equilibrium with its vapor. A method for the calculation of long-range interactions in inhomogeneous fluids was implemented to take into account the potential truncation effects. Surface tension and the pressure tensor were calculated via the classical Irving-Kirkwood method; vapor pressure, orthobaric densities, density profiles, and Gibbs relative adsorption of the volatile component with respect to the heavy component were also obtained. The properties were studied as a function of the temperature, molar concentration of the heavy component, and the asymmetry of the mixture. According to the results of this work, the temperature loses influence on the surface tension, vapor pressure, and Gibbs relative adsorption curves as the molecular length of the heavy component increases. This suggests that the universal behavior observed in pure fluids of Lennard-Jones chains also holds for binary mixtures. The contribution of the long-range interactions turned out to account for about 60%, 20%, and 10% of the surface tension, vapor pressure, and orthobaric density final values, respectively. This contribution was even larger at high temperatures and for large molecules. Strong enrichment of the volatile component at the interface was observed in the asymmetric mixtures. One of these mixtures even showed a barotropic effect at elevated pressures and a class III phase behavior.
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- Eder L Granados-Bazán
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Cologne, Luxemburger Str. 116, 50939 Köln, Germany
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- Institute of Thermo- and Fluid Dynamics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Cologne, Luxemburger Str. 116, 50939 Köln, Germany
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Algaba J, Mı Guez JM, Gómez-Álvarez P, Mejı A A, Blas FJ. Preferential Orientations and Anomalous Interfacial Tensions in Aqueous Solutions of Alcohols. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:8388-8401. [PMID: 32869644 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c05412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Literature studies on interfacial tension versus temperature between normal alcohols and water show that it increases with temperature and exhibits a maximum value at a given temperature depending on the molecular weight of the alcohol. This very unusual behavior is supposedly accompanied by the formation of monolayers of alcohol molecules oriented preferentially at the interface, a structural issue not confirmed until now. We use molecular-based models for water and alcohols in combination with molecular dynamics simulations to provide physical insights, from a molecular perspective, into the structural and thermodynamic behavior at the liquid-liquid interfaces of aqueous solutions of alcohols.
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- Jesús Algaba
- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Quı́mica Computacional, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Quı́mica Sostenible and Departamento de Ciencias Integradas, Universidad de Huelva, 21006 Huelva, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Quı́mica Computacional, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Quı́mica Sostenible and Departamento de Ciencias Integradas, Universidad de Huelva, 21006 Huelva, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Quı́mica Computacional, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Quı́mica Sostenible and Departamento de Ciencias Integradas, Universidad de Huelva, 21006 Huelva, Spain
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- Departamento de Ingenierı́a Quı́mica, Universidad de Concepción, P.O. Box 160-C, Concepción 4070386, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Quı́mica Computacional, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Quı́mica Sostenible and Departamento de Ciencias Integradas, Universidad de Huelva, 21006 Huelva, Spain
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Feria E, Algaba J, Míguez JM, Mejía A, Gómez-Álvarez P, Blas FJ. Vapour–liquid phase equilibria and interfacial properties of fatty acid methyl esters from molecular dynamics simulations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:4974-4983. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp06397h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Vapour–liquid surface tension as a function of temperature for methyl esters. Filled symbols are experimental data taken from the literature and open symbols MD NVT simulations.
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- Esther Feria
- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional
- CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Ciencias Integradas
- Universidad de Huelva
- 21007 Huelva
- Spain
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional
- CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Ciencias Integradas
- Universidad de Huelva
- 21007 Huelva
- Spain
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional
- CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Ciencias Integradas
- Universidad de Huelva
- 21007 Huelva
- Spain
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Química
- Universidad de Concepción
- POB 160-C Concepción
- Chile
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional
- CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Ciencias Integradas
- Universidad de Huelva
- 21007 Huelva
- Spain
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional
- CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Ciencias Integradas
- Universidad de Huelva
- 21007 Huelva
- Spain
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Brumby PE, Wensink HH, Haslam AJ, Jackson G. Structure and Interfacial Tension of a Hard-Rod Fluid in Planar Confinement. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:11754-11770. [PMID: 28885848 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The structural properties and interfacial tension of a fluid of rodlike hard-spherocylinder particles in contact with hard structureless flat walls are studied by means of Monte Carlo simulation. The calculated surface tension between the rod fluid and the substrate is characterized by a nonmonotonic trend as a function of the bulk concentration (density) over the range of isotropic bulk concentrations. As suggested by earlier theoretical studies, a surface-ordering scenario is confirmed by our simulations: the local orientational order close to the wall changes from uniaxial to biaxial nematic when the bulk concentration reaches about 85% of the value at the onset of the isotropic-nematic phase transition. The surface ordering coincides with a wetting transition whereby the hard wall is wetted by a nematic film. Accurate values of the fluid-solid surface tension, the adsorption, and the average particle-wall contact distance are reported (over a broad range of densities into the dense nematic region for the first time), which can serve as a useful benchmark for future theoretical and experimental studies on confined rod fluids. The simulation data are supplemented with predictions from second-virial density functional theory, which are in good qualitative agreement with the simulation results.
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- Paul E Brumby
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University , 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris Sud & CNRS , 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre, Imperial College London , South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre, Imperial College London , South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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Janeček J, Said-Aizpuru O, Paricaud P. Long Range Corrections for Inhomogeneous Simulations of Mie n–m Potential. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:4482-4491. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jiří Janeček
- ENSTA ParisTech, UCP, 828 Boulevard des Maréchaux, 91762 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- ENSTA ParisTech, UCP, 828 Boulevard des Maréchaux, 91762 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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- ENSTA ParisTech, UCP, 828 Boulevard des Maréchaux, 91762 Palaiseau Cedex, France
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Martínez-Ruiz FJ, Blas FJ. Interfacial properties of binary mixtures of square-well molecules from Monte Carlo simulation. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:154705. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4947017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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- F. J. Martínez-Ruiz
- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
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Garrido JM, Algaba J, Míguez JM, Mendiboure B, Moreno-Ventas Bravo AI, Piñeiro MM, Blas FJ. On interfacial properties of tetrahydrofuran: Atomistic and coarse-grained models from molecular dynamics simulation. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:144702. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4945385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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- J. M. Garrido
- Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Concepción, POB 160-C Concepción, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
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- Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et Leurs Reservoirs, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, CNRS, TOTAL–UMR 5150, Avenue de l’Université, B.P. 1155, Pau F-64013, France
- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidade de Vigo, E36310 Vigo, Spain
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- Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et Leurs Reservoirs, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, CNRS, TOTAL–UMR 5150, Avenue de l’Université, B.P. 1155, Pau F-64013, France
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
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- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidade de Vigo, E36310 Vigo, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
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Garrido JM, Mejía A, Piñeiro MM, Blas FJ, Müller EA. Interfacial tensions of industrial fluids from a molecular‐based square gradient theory. AIChE J 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.15190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- José Matías Garrido
- Departamento de Ingeniería QuímicaUniversidad de ConcepciónPOB 160‐CConcepción Chile
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- Departamento de Ingeniería QuímicaUniversidad de ConcepciónPOB 160‐CConcepción Chile
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- Departamento de Física AplicadaFacultade de Ciencias, Universidade de VigoE36310Vigo Spain
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- Laboratorio de Simulación Molecular y Química Computacional, CIQSO‐Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Huelva21007Huelva Spain
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- Dept. of Chemical EngineeringImperial College London, South Kensington CampusLondonSW7 2AZ U.K
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Martínez-Ruiz FJ, Moreno-Ventas Bravo AI, Blas FJ. Liquid-liquid interfacial properties of a symmetrical Lennard-Jones binary mixture. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:104706. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4930276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Orea P, Romero-Martínez A, Basurto E, Vargas CA, Odriozola G. Corresponding states law for a generalized Lennard-Jones potential. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:024504. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4926464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- P. Orea
- Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Dirección de Investigación en Transformación de Hidrocarburos, Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas 152, 07730 México D.F., Mexico
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- Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Dirección de Investigación en Exploración y Producción, Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas 152, 07730 México D.F., Mexico
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- Área de Física de Procesos Irreversibles, División de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Ave. San Pablo 180, 02200 México D.F., Mexico
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- Área de Física de Procesos Irreversibles, División de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Ave. San Pablo 180, 02200 México D.F., Mexico
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- Área de Física de Procesos Irreversibles, División de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Ave. San Pablo 180, 02200 México D.F., Mexico
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van Westen T, Vlugt TJH, Gross J. On the vapor-liquid equilibrium of attractive chain fluids with variable degree of molecular flexibility. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:224504. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4922264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Thijs van Westen
- Process and Energy Laboratory, Delft University of Technology, Leeghwaterstraat 39, 2628 CB Delft, The Netherlands
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- Process and Energy Laboratory, Delft University of Technology, Leeghwaterstraat 39, 2628 CB Delft, The Netherlands
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- Institut für Thermodynamik und Thermische Verfahrenstechnik, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Martínez-Ruiz F, Blas F. Determination of interfacial tension of binary mixtures from perturbative approaches. Mol Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2014.1001807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Eckelsbach S, Vrabec J. Fluid phase interface properties of acetone, oxygen, nitrogen and their binary mixtures by molecular simulation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:27195-203. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03415a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
Vapor–liquid equilibria (VLE) of the pure substances acetone, oxygen and nitrogen as well as their binary mixtures are studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation with a direct approach.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stefan Eckelsbach
- Thermodynamics and Energy Technology
- University of Paderborn
- 33098 Paderborn
- Germany
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- Thermodynamics and Energy Technology
- University of Paderborn
- 33098 Paderborn
- Germany
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Martínez-Ruiz FJ, Blas FJ, Mendiboure B, Moreno-Ventas Bravo AI. Effect of dispersive long-range corrections to the pressure tensor: The vapour-liquid interfacial properties of the Lennard-Jones system revisited. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:184701. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4900773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- F. J. Martínez-Ruiz
- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
- Centro de Investigación de Física Teórica y Matemática, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
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- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
- Centro de Investigación de Física Teórica y Matemática, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
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- Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et leurs Réservoirs, UMR5150, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, B. P. 1155, Pau Cedex 64014, France
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- Centro de Investigación de Física Teórica y Matemática, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
- Departamento de Geología, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
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Blas FJ, Bravo AIMV, Algaba J, Martínez-Ruiz FJ, MacDowell LG. Effect of molecular flexibility of Lennard-Jones chains on vapor-liquid interfacial properties. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:114705. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4868100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Blas FJ, Mendiboure B. Extension of the Test-Area methodology for calculating solid-fluid interfacial tensions in cylindrical geometry. J Chem Phys 2013; 138:134701. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4795836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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