Phase transitions of inhomogeneous liquids in pores or at interfaces

限制在狭窄孔隙中的液体（例如，碳纳米管中的水，介孔材料中的氧等）和界面上的流体（例如，油和水之间的界面）表现出相变或复杂的相行为，这在整体流体相中是永远不会观察到的。我们理论研究的一个目标是提取和理解受限流体和界面流体的一些基本性质。统计力学和计算机模拟是研究这些问题的工具。通过这些方法，我们发现了决定纳米孔中氩气相行为的几个关键因素，并在标准平均场密度泛函模型中揭示了四种润湿转变。

Liquids confined in narrow pores (e.g., water in carbon nanotubes, oxygen in meso-porous materials, etc) and fluids at interfaces (e.g., interfaces between oil and water) exhibit phase transitions or complex phase behavior that would never be observed for bulk fluid phases. A goal of our theoretical study is to extract and understand some fundamental properties in confined and interfacial fluids. Statistical mechanics and computer simulation are the tools to study these problems. With these approaches we found several key factors determining phase behavior of argon in nanopores and revealed four kinds of wetting transitions in a standard mean-filed density functional model.