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Chin. Phys. B, 2010, Vol. 19(7): 076801    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/19/7/076801
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Thermodynamic theory of the Tolman's length

Zhu Ru-Zeng (朱如曾), Wang Xiao-Song (王小松)
State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics (LNM), Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Abstract  There still exists controversy on the sign and magnitude of the Tolman's length and the Tolman's gap. Further experimental, computational and theoretical investigations on them are needed to solve this problem. In 2006, Blokhuis and Kuipers obtained a rigorous relationship between the Tolman's length and other thermodynamic quantities for the single-component liquid—vapour system. In the present paper, we derive two general relationships between the Tolman's length and other thermodynamic quantities for the single-component liquid—vapour system. The relationship derived by Blokhuis and Kuipers and an earlier result turn out to be two special cases of our results.
Keywords:  surface tension      Tolmans length      thermodynamics  
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PACS:  65.20.-w (Thermal properties of liquids)  
  68.03.Cd (Surface tension and related phenomena)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.10772189) and the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Zhu Ru-Zeng (朱如曾), Wang Xiao-Song (王小松) Thermodynamic theory of the Tolman's length 2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 076801

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