Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.110, No.44, 22125-22132, 2006
Models of adsorption at a line of three-phase contact
Two model density distributions at a line of three-phase contact for which the adsorptions are readily calculated are analyzed. One of them provides a numerical illustration of a recently found surprising fact about the thermodynamics of adsorption at such contact lines. A form of the line analogue of the Gibbs adsorption equation is conjectured, and it is noted that the conjecture is in principle testable by computer simulation and by experiment.