Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 197, 115-124 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01444-9
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01444-9
Regular Article
Disjoining pressure of planar adsorbed films
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
a e-mail: jrh.leeds@gmail.com
Received:
2
June
2011
Revised:
15
June
2011
Published online:
30
August
2011
Frumkin-Derjaguin theory of interfacial phase transitions and in particular the concept of the disjoining pressure of a planar adsorbed film is reviewed and then discussed in terms of statistical mechanical formulations of interfacial phase transitions beyond mean-field.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2011
