Negative Interfacial Tension Driven by Intrinsic Molecular Disorder
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Main result
Using a minimal coupled field theory that explicitly links a conserved density field to a nonconserved “junction” field representing stochastic binding site density, we show that the attraction between two fields χ, together with the fluctuations in the junction field Tϵ, renormalizes the effective interfacial tension to negative values: Δγ ∼ −Tϵχ2.
Appeared: Sunday, September 27. Journal of the American Chemical Society. Peer-reviewed journal.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6c10169