The structure of complex inhomogeneous systems is a current problem in the physics of liquids, glasses, polymers, molecular biology, and material science. To understand the physical properties of such materials, one should study the structure in “micro” and “macro” levels, which demands...

There is no general agreement about the molecular mechanism of hydrophobic hydration. The preferred models all consider only the state of single water molecules immediately adjacent to the hydrophobic solute to which they cannot hydrogen bond. Because, fortuitously, all experiments, until...

In the middle of the previous century, G. K. Boreskov, and J. Horiuti and S. Enomoto independently showed that for reversible reactions, running via a one-route mechanism with a rate-limiting step, there exist general relationships between the reaction rates in the forward and backward...

A microscopic lattice gas model for ultra-thin film dynamics is developed and applied to the case of heteroepitaxial growth. A set of non-linear kinetic equations for average occupations of adsorption sites in 3D lattice is studied analytically in a continual limit. It is found that within a...

We analyze here a model for an adsorbate system composed of many layers by extending a theoretical approach used to describe pattern formation on a monolayer of adsorbates with lateral interactions. The approach shows, in addition to a first-order phase transition in the first layer, a...