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Escape from textured adsorbing surfaces

Yuval Scher
Shlomi Reuveni

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The escape dynamics of sticky particles from textured surfaces is poorly understood despite importance to various scientific and technological domains. In this work, we address this challenge by investigating the escape time of adsorbates from prevalent surface topographies, including holes/pits, pillars, and grooves. Analytical expressions for the probability density function and the mean of the escape time are derived. A particularly interesting scenario is that of very deep and narrow confining spaces within the surface. In this case, the joint effect of the entrapment and stickiness prolongs the escape time, resulting in an effective desorption rate that is dramatically lower than that of the untextured surface. This rate is shown to abide a universal scaling law, which couples the equilibrium constants of adsorption with the relevant confining length scales. While our results are analytical and exact, we also present an approximation for deep and narrow cavities based on an effective description of one-dimensional diffusion that is punctuated by motionless adsorption events. This simple and physically motivated approximation provides high-accuracy predictions within its range of validity and works relatively well even for cavities of intermediate depth. All theoretical results are corroborated with extensive Monte Carlo simulations.
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hal-04749300 , version 1 (23-10-2024)

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Yuval Scher, Shlomi Reuveni, Denis S Grebenkov. Escape from textured adsorbing surfaces. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024, 160, pp.184105. ⟨10.1063/5.0196981⟩. ⟨hal-04749300⟩
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