Liquid-to-solid transitions in thin liquid films induced by confinement11Based on a talk given at the Vth Bar Ilan Conference on Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics, Ramat Gan, Israel (March 1997)

Jacob Klein and Eugenia Kumacheva

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1998, vol. 249, issue 1, 206-215

Abstract: The mechanical properties of confined thin films of simple liquids were measured via a surface force balance as a function of the film thickness. We find an abrupt transition from liquid-like to a solid-like behaviour at a confinement alone and does not require external applied pressure. At the transition the effective viscosity increases by at least seven orders of magnitude. It is proposed that this is a cooperative effect, reminiscent of a Lindemann-like mechanism, originating in the suppression of the freedom of the confined molecules to move.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00467-6

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