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Capillary rise in nanopores: molecular dynamics evidence for the Lucas-Washburn equation.

D. Dimitrov,A. Milchev,A. Milchev,Kurt Binder

Published 2007 in Physical Review Letters

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When a capillary is inserted into a liquid, the liquid will rapidly flow into it. This phenomenon, well studied and understood on the macroscale, is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations for coarse-grained models of nanotubes. Both a simple Lennard-Jones fluid and a model for a polymer melt are considered. In both cases after a transient period (of a few nanoseconds) the meniscus rises according to a (time)1/2 law. For the polymer melt, however, we find that the capillary flow exhibits a slip length delta, comparable in size with the nanotube radius R. We show that a consistent description of the imbibition process in nanotubes is only possible upon modification of the Lucas-Washburn law which takes explicitly into account the slip length delta. We also demonstrate that the velocity field of the rising fluid close to the interface is not a simple diffusive spreading.

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