Abstract

A monomolecular layer model of the surface phase of microdroplets was proposed, and the exact expression for Tolman length was derived in this paper. The Tolman lengths of water, n-pentane, and n-heptane were calculated by the expression, and the values are quite in agreement with the experimental values. By use of the Gibbs-Tolman-Kening-Buff equation, the exact relationship between the microdroplet surface tension and the radius is obtained, and the predicted values agree well with the simulated values. The results show that there is an obvious effect of the size of microdroplets (or nanoparticles) on the surface tension, and the surface tension decreases with decreasing droplet size. For the microdroplets of general liquid, only if their radius approaches or reaches 10(-9) m does the effect become significant.

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