Abstract. We study vesicles formed by lipid bilayers that are governed by an elastic bending energy and on which the lipids laterally separate forming two different phases. The energy laden phase interfaces may be modeled as curves on the hyper-surface representing the membrane (sharp interface model). The phase field methodology is another powerful tool to model such phase separation phenomena...

Functionalized energies, such as the Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard, model phase separation in amphiphilic systems, in which interface production is limited by competition for surfactant phase, which wets the interface. This is in contrast to classical phase-separating energies, such as the Cahn-Hilliard, in which interfacial area is energetically penalized. In binary amphiphilic mixtures, interf...

The present study reports molecular dynamics simulations for biphasic systems comprising tributyl phosphate (TBP) in dodecane and uranyl nitrate in the aqueous phase, which are key chemical species in the well-known Pu-U extraction (PUREX) process. An attempt has been made to understand the nature of interface and mechanism of 'TBP associated uranyl' crossing under neutral and acidic conditions...

The universal thermodynamic driving force for coherent plane interface reorientation (IR) during first-order phase transformations (PT) in solids is derived. The relation between the rates of IR and interface propagation (IP) and the corresponding driving forces are derived for combined athermal and drag interface friction. The coupled evolution of IR and IP during cubic-tetragonal and tetragon...

According to recent numerical results from lattice models, the critical exponents of systems with many absorbing states and order parameter coupled to a nondiffusive conserved field coincide with those of the linear interface depinning model within computational accuracy. In this paper the connection between absorbing-state phase transitions and interface pinning in quenched disordered media is...

A novel galvanostatic intermittent titration technique (GITT) and a novel potentiostatic intermittent titration technique (PITT) for phase-transformation electrodes were developed by integrating mixed control phasetransformation theory with traditional GITT and PITT methods. The contribution of the strain accommodation energy to the thermodynamic driving force for phase transformation was asses...

Complete wetting is a universal phenomenon associated with interfaces separating coexisting phases. For example, in the pure gluon theory , at T c an interface separating two distinct high-temperature de-confined phases splits into two confined-deconfined interfaces with a complete wetting layer of confined phase between them. In supersym-metric Yang-Mills theory, distinct confined phases may c...

Athermal resistance to the motion of a phase interface due precipitate is investigated. The coupled field and elasticity equations are solved for transformation (PT). volumetric misfit strain within included using error rectangular functions. Due presence precipitates, critical thermal driving forces (athermal friction) remarkably differ between direct reverse PTs, resulting in hysteresis behav...

The reduced tension σ cd of the interface between the confined and the deconfined phase of SU (3) pure gauge theory is determined from numerical simulations of the first transfer matrix eigenvalues. At Tc = 1/Lt we find σ cd = 0.139(4)T 2 c for Lt = 2. The interfaces show universal behavior because the deconfined-deconfined interfaces are completely wet by the confined phase. The critical expon...