id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_smw7zov5yjhlbeu2ke2esgl4pq Richard C. Remsing Pathways to dewetting in hydrophobic confinement 2015.0 6 .pdf application/pdf 6938 701 62 barrier in the free energetics of vapor tube formation as a function Although it has been recognized that water density fluctuations must play a crucial role in nucleating vapor tubes (14, 15), These isolated cavities are stabilized by enhanced water density fluctuations, and their growth is uphill in free energy. isolated cavities are already larger than the corresponding critical vapor tubes predicted by classical theory. perform molecular dynamics simulations of water confined between two roughly square hydrophobic surfaces of size L = 4 nm, Kink Separates the Vapor Tube and Isolated Cavity We simulate the SPC/E (extended simple point charge) model of water in confinement between two square hydrophobic surfaces of size L = 4 nm, for a range In contrast, for larger d values, the barrier occurs in the vapor tube segment of the simulated free energy profile and corresponds to the classical critical ./cache/work_smw7zov5yjhlbeu2ke2esgl4pq.pdf ./txt/work_smw7zov5yjhlbeu2ke2esgl4pq.txt