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Surface Tension

Known as: Surface Tensions, Tension, Surface, Tensions, Surface 
The force acting on the surface of a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Universal solvation model based on solute electron density and on a continuum model of the solvent defined by the bulk dielectric constant and atomic surface tensions.
We present a new continuum solvation model based on the quantum mechanical charge density of a solute molecule interacting with a… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Designing Superoleophobic Surfaces
Understanding the complementary roles of surface energy and roughness on natural nonwetting surfaces has led to the development… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Surface tension of the most popular models of water by using the test-area simulation method.
We consider the calculation of the surface tension from simulations of several models of water, such as the traditional TIP3P… 
Review
1997
Review
1997
Long-scale evolution of thin liquid films
Macroscopic thin liquid films are entities that are important in biophysics, physics, and engineering, as well as in natural… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(propylene oxide )-poly (ethylene oxide) block copolymer surfactants in aqueous solutions and at interfaces: thermodynamics, structure, dynamics, and modeling
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
A continuum method for modeling surface tension
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
A front-tracking method for viscous, incompressible, multi-fluid flows
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Protein folding and association: Insights from the interfacial and thermodynamic properties of hydrocarbons
We demonstrate in this work that the surface tension, water‐organic solvent, transfer‐free energies and the thermodynamics of… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Additive and nonadditive surface tension components and the interpretation of contact angles
It is demonstrated that, while the Lifshitz-van der Waals (rLW) and the polar, Lewis acid-base (rAB) surface tension components… 
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Stability of periodic waves of finite amplitude on the surface of a deep fluid
We study the stability of steady nonlinear waves on the surface of an infinitely deep fluid [1, 2]. In section 1, the equations… 
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