Abstract
A simple model of confinement-induced freezing in thin liquid layers is presented. Under boundary conditions of vanishing displacement field at the walls, confinement suppresses the amplitude of fluctuations in a solid film below a critical value determined by the Lindemann criterion of melting. The resulting increase of the melting temperature compared to that of a bulk solid is estimated, and the connection with experiments is discussed. The effects of other boundary conditions are also studied.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7146-7150 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Langmuir |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 26 |
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| State | Published - 24 Dec 1997 |