The composition demixing effect has been found often in alloy coatings deposited by cathodic arc ion plating using various alloy cathode targets. The characteristics of composition demixing phenomena were summarized. ...The composition demixing effect has been found often in alloy coatings deposited by cathodic arc ion plating using various alloy cathode targets. The characteristics of composition demixing phenomena were summarized. Beginning with the ionization zone near the surface of the cathode target, a physical model in terms of the ions generated in the ionization zone and their movement in the plating room modified by bias electric field was proposed. Based on the concept of electric charge state, the simulation calculation of the composition demixing effect was carried out. The percentage of atoms of an element in coating and from the alloy target was demonstrated by direct comparison. The influences of the composition change of the alloy target and the bias electric field on the composition demixing effect were discussed in detail. It is also proposed that the average charge states of the elements may be used to calculate the composition demixing effect and to design the composition of the alloy target.展开更多
For the asymmetrical colloidal mixture subject to a confining potential and an external multi-Gauss potential, the separation of species is studied based on the classical density functional theory of simple fluids. Th...For the asymmetrical colloidal mixture subject to a confining potential and an external multi-Gauss potential, the separation of species is studied based on the classical density functional theory of simple fluids. The multi-Gauss potential consists of several Gauss barriers, which are distributed along the axial direction with uniform distance. The barrier width,barrier distance, and barrier height are individually adjusted to investigate their effects on the species separation. From the numerical results, it is concluded that in each condition, the competition between the external potential and the depletion potential determines the phase equilibrium and the separation. Species separation appears only in the region where the depletion is dominant. On the contrary, both species are absent in the regions where the external potential takes the absolute advantage.展开更多
Entropic contribution to the interaction parameter (?) in the model incompressible polymer/oligomer system iscalculated by the lattice cluster theory(LCT).It is found that in the oligomer solvent,there exists a wide c...Entropic contribution to the interaction parameter (?) in the model incompressible polymer/oligomer system iscalculated by the lattice cluster theory(LCT).It is found that in the oligomer solvent,there exists a wide concentration rangethat the non-combinatorial“entropic interaction”term (?)φ_1φ_2 perceptibly counteracts the mean field combinary entropy△S_(MF).With the increase of the solvent size,both (?) and the ratio (?)φ_1φ_2/△S_(MF) first reach their maximum and finallybecome trivially to zero.It is worth noting that no any demixing was found in the current calculation.This makes thecontroversial idea“entropically driven demixing”even elusive.However,we propose that further work on compressiblepolymer solution with structured monomer will witness the demixing owning to an increased configurational correlation.展开更多
文摘The composition demixing effect has been found often in alloy coatings deposited by cathodic arc ion plating using various alloy cathode targets. The characteristics of composition demixing phenomena were summarized. Beginning with the ionization zone near the surface of the cathode target, a physical model in terms of the ions generated in the ionization zone and their movement in the plating room modified by bias electric field was proposed. Based on the concept of electric charge state, the simulation calculation of the composition demixing effect was carried out. The percentage of atoms of an element in coating and from the alloy target was demonstrated by direct comparison. The influences of the composition change of the alloy target and the bias electric field on the composition demixing effect were discussed in detail. It is also proposed that the average charge states of the elements may be used to calculate the composition demixing effect and to design the composition of the alloy target.
基金Project supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(Grant No.13MS105)
文摘For the asymmetrical colloidal mixture subject to a confining potential and an external multi-Gauss potential, the separation of species is studied based on the classical density functional theory of simple fluids. The multi-Gauss potential consists of several Gauss barriers, which are distributed along the axial direction with uniform distance. The barrier width,barrier distance, and barrier height are individually adjusted to investigate their effects on the species separation. From the numerical results, it is concluded that in each condition, the competition between the external potential and the depletion potential determines the phase equilibrium and the separation. Species separation appears only in the region where the depletion is dominant. On the contrary, both species are absent in the regions where the external potential takes the absolute advantage.
基金This work was support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,No.2037402790103036).
文摘Entropic contribution to the interaction parameter (?) in the model incompressible polymer/oligomer system iscalculated by the lattice cluster theory(LCT).It is found that in the oligomer solvent,there exists a wide concentration rangethat the non-combinatorial“entropic interaction”term (?)φ_1φ_2 perceptibly counteracts the mean field combinary entropy△S_(MF).With the increase of the solvent size,both (?) and the ratio (?)φ_1φ_2/△S_(MF) first reach their maximum and finallybecome trivially to zero.It is worth noting that no any demixing was found in the current calculation.This makes thecontroversial idea“entropically driven demixing”even elusive.However,we propose that further work on compressiblepolymer solution with structured monomer will witness the demixing owning to an increased configurational correlation.
