Professor Robert Evans

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• 2023

  Understanding the physics of hydrophobic solvation

  Coe, M. K., Evans, R. & Wilding, N. B., 19 Jan 2023, In: The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158, 3, 034508.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Density 100%
  • Hydrophobic Surface 75%
  • Fluctuation 75%
  • Solute 75%
  • Potential 50%
• 2022

  Density depletion and enhanced fluctuations in water near hydrophobic solutes: identifying the underlying physics

  Coe, M. K., Evans, R. & Wilding, N. B., 25 Jan 2022, In: Physical Review Letters. 128, 4, 045501.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Water 100%
  • Vapor 80%
  • Solute 80%
  • Density 80%
  • Depletion 60%
  12 Downloads (Pure)

• Measures of fluctuations for a liquid near critical drying

  Coe, M. K., Evans, R. & Wilding, N. B., Apr 2022, In: Physical Review E. 105, 4, 044801.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Liquids 100%
  • Substrates 66%
  • Variations 50%
  • Drying 50%
  • Liquid 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• The coexistence curve and surface tension of a monatomic water model

  Coe, M. K., Evans, R. & Wilding, N. B., 19 Apr 2022, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 156, 15, 7 p., 154505.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Water 100%
  • Coexistence 60%
  • Model 40%
  • Liquid 40%
  • Liquids 40%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  8 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Gerhard Findenegg (1938–2019)

  Schoen, M., Evans, R., Gubbins, K. E., Rabe, J. P., Thommes, M. & Jackson, G., 2021, In: Molecular Physics. 119, 15-16, e1953272.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Primitive model electrolytes in the near and far field: Decay lengths from DFT and simulations

  Cats, P., Evans, R., Härtel, A. & Van Roij, R., 28 Mar 2021, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 154, 12, 124504.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Length 100%
  • Decay 100%
  • Molecular Dynamics 75%
  • Density Functional Theory 62%
  • Integral Equations 37%
  24 Citations (Scopus)

• Special issue in honour of Michael L. Klein FRS

  Evans, R., Frenkel, D., Galindo, A. & Jackson, G., 2021, In: Molecular Physics. 119, 19-20, e1999639.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2020

  Remnants of the disappearing critical point in chain-forming patchy fluids

  Stopper, D., Hansen-Goos, H., Roth, R. & Evans, R., 21 Mar 2020, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 152, 11, 111101.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Critical Point 100%
  • Chains 66%
  • Density 66%
  • Pair Correlation Function 33%
  • Crossover 33%
  5 Citations (Scopus)
• 2019

  A unified description of hydrophilic and superhydrophobic surfaces in terms of the wetting and drying transitions of liquids

  Evans, R., Stewart, M. & Wilding, N., 14 Oct 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 201913587.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Superhydrophobic 100%
  • Behavior 66%
  • Wetting 66%
  • Drying 66%
  • Liquids 50%
  25 Citations (Scopus)

• From simple liquids to colloids and soft matter

  Evans, R., Frenkel, D. & Dijkstra, M., Feb 2019, Physics Today, 72, 2, p. 38-39 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article (Specialist Publication)

  • Liquids 100%
  • Liquid 100%
  • Existence 75%
  • Crystals 25%
  • Atoms 25%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• On the decay of the pair correlation function and the line of vanishing excess isothermal compressibility in simple fluids

  Stopper, D., Hansen-Goos, H., Roth, R. & Evans, R., 7 Jul 2019, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 151, 1, 12 p., 014501.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Fluid 100%
  • Asymptotic Decay 66%
  • Correlation Length 66%
  • Isothermal Compressibility. 66%
  • Decay 66%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  463 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Composition inversion in mixtures of binary colloids and polymer

  Zhang, I., Pinchaipat, R., Wilding, N. B., Faers, M. A., Bartlett, P., Evans, R. & Royall, C., 14 May 2018, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 148, 18, 10 p., 184902.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Colloid 100%
  • Liquid 80%
  • Liquids 80%
  • Mixture 60%
  • Mixtures 60%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

  573 Downloads (Pure)

• Daan Frenkel — An entropic career

  Evans, R., Galindo, A., Jackson, G., Lynden-Bell, R. & Rotenberg, B., 17 Nov 2018, In: Molecular Physics. 116, 21-22, p. 2737-2741 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Structural crossover in a model fluid exhibiting two length scales: Repercussions for quasicrystal formation

  Walters, M. C., Subramanian, P., Archer, A. J. & Evans, R., Jul 2018, In: Physical Review E. 98, 1, 12 p., 012606.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Crossover 100%
  • Asymptotic Decay 100%
  • Quasicrystallinity 100%
  • Solid Phase 100%
  • Wavelength 75%
  15 Citations (Scopus)
• 2017

  Drying and wetting transitions of a Lennard-Jones fluid: Simulations and density functional theory

  Evans, R., Stewart, M. C. & Wilding, N. B., 28 Jul 2017, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 147, 4, 20 p., 044701.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Wall 100%
  • Drying 100%
  • Wetting 83%
  • Fluid 50%
  • Transitions 50%
  26 Citations (Scopus)

  334 Downloads (Pure)

• Solvent fluctuations around solvophobic, solvophilic and patchy nanostructures and the accompanying solvent mediated interactions

  Chacko, B., Evans, R. & Archer, A. J., 28 Mar 2017, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 146, 12, 17 p., 124703.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Block Like Crystal 100%
  • Solvent 71%
  • Liquid 71%
  • Density 71%
  • Gas 42%
  21 Citations (Scopus)

  409 Downloads (Pure)

• The standard mean-field treatment of inter-particle attraction in classical DFT is better than one might expect

  Archer, A. J., Chacko, B. & Evans, R., 21 Jul 2017, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 147, 3, 8 p., 034501.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Density 100%
  • Density Functional Theory 100%
  • Liquid 60%
  • Volume 60%
  • Random Phase Approximation 40%
  39 Citations (Scopus)
• 2016

  Critical Casimir interactions and colloidal self-assembly in near-critical solvents

  Tasios, N., Edison, J., van Roij, R., Evans, R. & Dijkstra, M., 22 Aug 2016, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 145, 084902.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Self assembly 100%

• Critical Drying of Liquids

  Evans, R., Stewart, M. C. & Wilding, N. B., 21 Oct 2016, In: Physical Review Letters. 117, 17, 5 p., 176102.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Liquid 100%
  • Substrate 75%
  • Drying 75%
  • Density Functional Theory Study 75%
  • Substrates 75%
  23 Citations (Scopus)

  240 Downloads (Pure)

• Direct Observation in 3d of Structural Crossover in Binary Hard Sphere Mixtures

  Statt, A., Pinchaipat, R., Turci, F., Evans, R. & Royall, C. P., 14 Apr 2016, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 144, 4, 7 p., 144506.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Crossover 100%
  • Mixtures 40%
  • Phase Diagrams 40%
  • Percolation 40%
  • Mixture 40%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

  641 Downloads (Pure)

• New developments in classical density functional theory

  Evans, R., Oettel, M., Roth, R. & Kahl, G., 2016, In: Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 28, 24, p. 1-6 6 p., 240401.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  64 Citations (Scopus)

• The local structure factor near an interface; Beyond extended Capillary-Wave models

  Parry, A. O., Rascón, C. & Evans, R., 26 Apr 2016, In: Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 28, 24, 19 p., 244013.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Structure Factor 100%
  • Capillary Wave 74%
  • Volume 74%
  • Wave Model 50%
  • Local Structure 50%
  23 Citations (Scopus)
• 2015

  Critical casimir forces and colloidal phase transitions in a near-critical solvent: A simple model reveals a rich phase diagram

  Edison, J. R., Tasios, N., Belli, S., Evans, R., Van Roij, R. & Dijkstra, M., 21 Jan 2015, In: Physical Review Letters. 114, 3, 038301.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Solvent 100%
  • Phase Transition 28%
  • Casimir Force 28%
  • Fluid 14%
  • Self Assembly 14%
  34 Citations (Scopus)

• Liquid-gas asymmetry and the wave-vector-dependent surface tension

  Parry, A. O., Rascón, C. & Evans, R., 11 Mar 2015, In: Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 91, 3, 030401.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Liquid 100%
  • Density 75%
  • Gas 75%
  • Models 50%
  • Vectors 50%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Phase behaviour of colloids suspended in a near-critical solvent: a mean-field approach

  Edison, J. R., Belli, S., Evans, R., van Roij, R. & Dijkstra, M., 1 Sep 2015, In: Molecular Physics. 113, 17-18, p. 2546-2555 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Solvent 100%
  • Colloid 60%
  • Phase Behavior 60%
  • Simulation 40%
  • Aggregation 40%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Quantifying Density Fluctuations in Water at a Hydrophobic Surface: Evidence for Critical Drying

  Evans, R. & Wilding, N. B., 2 Jul 2015, In: Physical Review Letters. 115, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Substrate 100%
  • Water 75%
  • Simulation 50%
  • Drying 50%
  • Hydrophobic Surface 50%
  47 Citations (Scopus)

• The local compressibility of liquids near non-adsorbing substrates: a useful measure of solvophobicity and hydrophobicity?

  Evans, R. & Stewart, M. C., 20 May 2015, In: Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 27, 19, 194111.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Substrates 100%
  • Compressibility 62%
  • Liquid 62%
  • Hydrophobicity 50%
  • Density 37%
  45 Citations (Scopus)
• 2014

  Layering transitions and solvation forces in an asymmetrically confined fluid

  Stewart, M. C. & Evans, R., 7 Apr 2014, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 140, 13, 14 p., 134704.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Liquid 100%
  • Density 57%
  • Force 42%
  • Volume 42%
  • Temperature 42%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Pair correlation functions and the wavevector-dependent surface tension in a simple density functional treatment of the liquid-vapour interface

  Parry, A. O., Rascón, C., Willis, G. & Evans, R., 3 Sep 2014, In: Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 26, 35, 355008.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Density 100%
  • Structure Factor 75%
  • Surfaces 50%
  • Dependent Surface 50%
  • Surface 50%
  22 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  Relationship between local molecular field theory and density functional theory for non-uniform liquids

  Archer, A. J. & Evans, R., 7 Jan 2013, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 138, 1, 014502.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Field Theory 100%
  • Density Functional Theory 85%
  • Liquid 57%
  • Liquids 57%
  • Structure 28%
  17 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  Phase behavior and structure of a fluid confined between competing (solvophobic and solvophilic) walls

  Stewart, M. C. & Evans, R., 12 Sep 2012, In: Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 86, 3, 031601.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Potential 100%
  • Coexistence 100%
  • Fluid 100%
  • Density 66%
  • Phase Diagrams 66%
  14 Citations (Scopus)

• Temperature as an external field for colloid-polymer mixtures: 'Quenching' by heating and 'melting' by cooling

  Taylor, S. L., Evans, R. & Patrick Royall, C., 21 Nov 2012, In: Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 24, 46, 464128.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Colloid 100%
  • Polymer 85%
  • Temperature 71%
  • Reaction Temperature 71%
  • Model 28%
  25 Citations (Scopus)
• 2011

  Depletion potentials in highly size-asymmetric binary hard-sphere mixtures: Comparison of simulation results with theory

  Ashton, D. J., Wilding, N. B., Roth, R. & Evans, R., 20 Dec 2011, In: Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 84, 6, 061136.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Simulation 100%
  • Potential 85%
  • Depletion 71%
  • Density Functional Theory 71%
  • Sphere 71%
  44 Citations (Scopus)

• Nucleation of liquid droplets in a fluid with competing interactions

  Archer, A. J. & Evans, R., 10 Dec 2011, In: Molecular Physics. 109, 23-24, p. 2711-2722 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Nucleation 100%
  • Liquid 41%
  • Electric Potential 35%
  • Droplet 23%
  • Density 23%
  15 Citations (Scopus)
• 2010

  Density Functional Theory for Inhomogeneous Fluids I: Simple Fluids in Equlibrium

  Evans, R., 1 Feb 2010, Lecture notes at 3rd Warsaw School of Statistical Physics. Cichocki, B., Napiorkowski, M. & Piasecki, J. (eds.). Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, p. 43 - 85 43 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book

  8 Citations (Scopus)
• 2009

  Pair correlation function decay in models of simple fluids that contain dispersion interactions

  Evans, R. & Henderson, J. R., 25 Nov 2009, In: Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 21, 47, 11 p., 474220.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Decay 100%
  • Poles 57%
  • Particle 42%
  • Wetting 42%
  • Pair Correlation Function 42%
  21 Citations (Scopus)

• Solvent Mediated Interactions between Model Colloids and Interfaces:A Microscopic Approach

  Hopkins, PD., Archer, AJ. & Evans, R., Sep 2009, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 131, p. 124704-1 - 124704-15 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Solvent 100%
  • Colloid 100%
  • Potential 38%
  • Fluid-Fluid Interface 33%
  • Liquid Film 22%
  34 Citations (Scopus)
• 2008

  Interfacial and Wetting Properties of a Binary Point Yukawa Fluid

  Hopkins, PD., Archer, AJ. & Evans, R., Dec 2008, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 129, p. 214709-1 - 214709-10 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Species 100%
  • State Point 66%
  • Pair Potential 66%
  • Fluid Phase 66%
  • Binary Fluid 66%
  8 Citations (Scopus)
• 2007

  Condensation in a Capillary is a Continuous Critical Phenomenon

  Parry, AO., Rascon, C., Wilding, NB. & Evans, R., 27 May 2007, In: Physical Review Letters. 98, 4 p., 226101.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Covariance 100%
  • Critical Phenomena 100%
  • Force 50%
  • Prediction 50%
  • Simulation Study 50%
  68 Citations (Scopus)

• Model colloidal fluid with competing interactions: Bulk and interfacial properties

  Archer, A. J., Pini, D., Evans, R. & Reatto, L., 2007, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 126, 1, 014104.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Fluid 100%
  • Oscillatory 100%
  • Behavior 100%
  • Long Wavelength 75%
  • Density Functional Theory 75%
  85 Citations (Scopus)
• 2006

  Pair Correlation Functions and Phase Separation in a Two Component Point Yukawa Fluid

  Hopkins, PD., Archer, AJ. & Evans, R., 2006, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 124, p. 1 - 10 10 p., Article Number 054503.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  23 Citations (Scopus)

• Screening in Yukawa Fluid Mixtures

  Archer, AJ., Hopkins, PD. & Evans, R., 2006, In: Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 74, 4 p., 010402.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Soft core fluid in a quenched matrix of soft core particles: A mobile mixture in a model gel

  Archer, AJ., Schmidt, M. & Evans, R., Jan 2006, In: Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 73, p. 011506-1 - 011506-9 9 p., Article Number 011506.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
  14 Citations (Scopus)
• 2005

  Asymptotic Decay of Pair Correlations in a Yukawa Fluid

  Hopkins, PD., Evans, R. & Archer, AJ., 2005, In: Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 71, 4 p., Article number 027401.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  25 Citations (Scopus)

• Critical Drying at a Spherical Substrate

  Stewart, MC. & Evans, R., 2005, In: Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 17, p. S34499 - S3505 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Homogeneous and inhomogeneous hard-sphere mixtures: Manifestations of structural crossover

  Grodon, C., Dijkstra, M., Evans, R. & Roth, R., 1 Nov 2005, In: Molecular Physics. 103, 21-23 SPEC. ISS., p. 3009-3023 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Crossover 100%
  • Sphere 100%
  • Spheres 100%
  • Mixture 71%
  • Mixtures 71%
  46 Citations (Scopus)

• Solvent Mediated Interactions Close to Fluid-Fluid Phase Separation: Microscopic Treatment of Bridging in a Soft Core Fluid

  Archer, AJ., Evans, R., Roth, R. & Oettel, M., 2005, In: Journal of Chemical Physics. 122, 11 p., Article number 084513.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  23 Citations (Scopus)

• Wetting/Drying at a Curved Substrate: Long-Ranged Forces

  Stewart, M. C. & Evans, R., 2005, In: Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 71, 14 p., Article number 011602.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

• Wetting and drying at a curved substrate: Long-ranged forces

  Stewart, M. C. & Evans, R., Jan 2005, In: Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 71, 1, 011602.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • R 100%
  • Interfacial Tension 42%
  • Surface Tension 35%
  • Density 21%
  • Wetting 21%
  81 Citations (Scopus)
• 2004

  Comment on Dynamic Wetting by Liquids of Different Viscosity by T D Blake and Y D Shikhmurzaev

  Eggers, J. & Evans, R., 15 Dec 2004, In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 280, 2, p. 537-538 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

  • Wetting 100%
  • Dynamics of Wetting 100%
  • Surface Tension 50%
  • Viscosity 50%
  38 Citations (Scopus)