Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.106, No.16, 4266-4268, 2002
Size range of solid-liquid interface energy of organic crystals
In light of our thermodynamic model, which is applied for organic molecules through a suitable consideration of diameter of the molecules, the size and size dependence of excess Gibbs free energy at the solid-liquid interface of different kinds of organic crystals are predicted. The predicted values are within the size range of the interface energy, considering nature of the interface energy, and correspond to the latest experimental data. Moreover, the known experimental results for the interface energy of chain molecules are discussed.