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Publications (refereed)

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Year: 1987, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01
  1. P. Attard, M.A. Box, G. Bryant, and B.H.J. McKellar, 'Asymptotic Behaviour of the Mie Scattering Amplitude', J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 3 , 256-258 (1986).

  2. M.A. Box, P. Attard, G. Bryant, and B.H.J. McKellar, 'Sum Rules for Mie Scattering', J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 4, 795-799 (1987).

  3. P. Attard and J. Wolfe, 'Lateral Heterogeneity and Stacking in the Thylakoid: How are They Related?' in Membrane Transport in Plants and Fungi. edited by M.J. Beilby, N.A. Walker, and J.R. Smith, 221-223 (Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1990).

  4. P. Attard and D. J. Mitchell, 'The Forces between Surfaces of Mobile, Orientable Dipoles. Asymptotic Expressions.' Chem. Phys. Lett. 133, 347-352 (1987).

  5. P. Attard, R. Kjellander, and D. J. Mitchell, 'Interactions between Electro-neutral Surfaces bearing mobile charges', Chem. Phys. Lett. 139, 219-224 (1987).

  6. P. Attard, D. J. Mitchell, and B. W. Ninham, 'The Attractive Forces between Polar Lipid Bilayers', Biophys. J. 53, 457-460 (1988).

  7. P. Attard, D. J. Mitchell, and B. W. Ninham, 'Beyond Poisson-Boltzmann: Images and Correlations in the Electric Double Layer. I. Counterions only.' J. Chem. Phys. 88, 4987-4996 (1988). Erratum, J. Chem. Phys. 92, 3248 (1990).

  8. Bo. Jonsson, P. Attard, and D. J. Mitchell, 'The Interactions between Dipolar Surfaces in a Dielectric Continuum Model.' J. Phys. Chem. 92, 5001-5005 (1988).

  9. P. Attard and D. J. Mitchell, 'The Forces between Surfaces of Mobile, Orientable Dipoles. The Method of Reflection Coefficients.' J. Chem. Phys. 88 , 4391-4396 (1988).

  10. P. Attard, R. Kjellander, D. J. Mitchell, and Bo. J\"{o}nsson, 'Electrostatic Fluctuation Interactions between Neutral Surfaces Adsorbed with Mobile Ions or Dipoles', J. Chem. Phys. 89, 1664-1680 (1988).

  11. P. Attard, 'Lifshitz Theory for Anisotropic Multilayers', J. Colloid Interface Sci. 127 292-294 (1989).

  12. P. Attard, D. J. Mitchell, and B. W. Ninham, 'Beyond Poisson-Boltzmann: Images and Correlations in the Electric Double Layer. II. Symmetric Electrolyte.' J. Chem. Phys. 89, 4358-4367 (1988).

  13. P. Attard and M.T. Batchelor, 'A Mechanism for the Hydration Force Demonstrated in a Model System', Chem. Phys. Lett. 149, 206-211 (1988).

  14. P. Attard, 'The Long-Range Attraction between Hydrophobic Surfaces', J. Phys. Chem. 93, 6441-6444 (1989).

  15. P. Attard, 'Spherically Inhomogeneous Fluids. I. Percus-Yevick Hard-Spheres: Osmotic Coefficients and Triplet Correlations.' J. Chem. Phys. 91, 3072-3082 (1989).

  16. P. Attard, 'Spherically Inhomogeneous Fluids. II. Hard-Sphere Solute in a Hard-Sphere Solvent.' J. Chem. Phys. 91, 3083-3089 (1989).

  17. P. Attard and G.N. Patey, 'Hypernetted-Chain Closure with Bridge Diagrams. Asymmetric Hard Sphere Mixtures.' J. Chem. Phys. 92, 4970-4982 (1990).

  18. P. Attard, D. Wei, and G.N. Patey, 'Critical Comments on the Nonlocal Dielectric Function Employed in Recent Theories of the Hydration Force', Chem. Phys. Lett. 172, 69-72 (1990).

  19. P. Attard, D. Wei, G.N. Patey, and G.M. Torrie, 'The Interaction between Macroparticles in Molecular Fluids.' J. Chem. Phys. 93, 7360-7368 (1990).

  20. P. Attard, 'Integral Equations and Closure Relations for the Bridge Function and for the Triplet Correlation Function', J. Chem. Phys. 93, 7301-7309 (1990); Erratum, 94, 6936 (1991).

  21. P. Attard, 'The Chemical Potential in Terms of n-Particle Direct Correlation Functions', J. Chem. Phys. 94, 2370-2371 (1991).

  22. P. Attard and G.N. Patey, 'Continuum Electrostatic Interactions between Planar Lattices of Dipoles and the Possible Relevance to the Hydration Force', Phys. Rev. A 43, 2953-2962, (1991).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (1.8MB).]

  23. P. Attard, 'Lennard-Jones Bridge Functions and Triplet Correlation Functions.' J. Chem. Phys. 95, 4471-4480 (1991).

  24. P. Attard, 'An Improved Kirkwood Superposition Approximation for Three Atoms in Rolling Contact', Mol. Phys. 74, 547-552 (1991).

  25. P. Attard, D.R. Berard, C.P. Ursenbach, and G.N. Patey, 'The Interaction Free Energy between Planar Walls in Dense Fluids. An Ornstein-Zernike Approach with Results for Hard-Sphere, Lennard-Jones, and Dipolar Systems.' Phys. Rev. A 44, 8224-8234 (1991).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (1.9MB).]

  26. P. Attard, 'Pair Hypernetted Chain Closure for Fluids with Three-body Potentials. Results for Argon with the Axilrod-Teller Triple Dipole Potential.' Phys. Rev. A 45, 3659-3669 (1992).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (1.7MB).]

  27. P. Attard and G. Stell, 'Three-Particle Correlations in a Hard-Sphere Fluid, Chem. Phys. Lett. 189, 128-132 (1992).

  28. P. Attard, 'Expansion Moments for the Local Field Distribution that Involve the Three-Particle Distribution Function', Mol. Phys. 75, 975-979 (1992).

  29. P. Attard, D. Wei, and G.N. Patey, 'On the Existence of Exact Conditions in the Theory of Electrical Double Layers', J. Chem. Phys. 96, 3767-3771 (1992).

  30. P. Attard, C.P. Ursenbach, and G.N. Patey, 'Long-Ranged Attractions between Macroparticles in Near-Critical and Spinodal Fluids', Phys. Rev. A 45, 7621-7623 (1992).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (.5MB).]

  31. P. Attard, 'Simulation Results for a Fluid with the Axilrod-Teller Triple Dipole Potential', Phys. Rev. A. 45, 5649-5653 (1992).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (.7MB).]

  32. P. Attard and J.L. Parker, 'Oscillatory Solvation Forces: a Comparison of Theory and Experiment', J. Phys. Chem. 96, 5086-5093 (1992).
    [View abstract. Download: latex (59kB), postscript (157kB, 10 pages, no figs).]

  33. P. Attard and J.L. Parker, 'Deformation and Adhesion of Elastic Bodies in Contact', Phys. Rev. A 46, 7959-7971 (1992). Erratum, Phys. Rev. E 50, 5145 (1994).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (2MB), postscript (168kB, 13 pages, no figs).]

  34. J.L. Parker and P. Attard, 'Deformation of Surfaces due to Surface Forces', J. Phys. Chem. 96, 10398-10405 (1992).

  35. P. Attard and G. Moule, 'A Force-Balance Monte Carlo Simulation of the Surface Tension of a Hard-Sphere Fluid', Mol. Phys. 78, 943-959 (1993).
    [View abstract. Download: latex (43kB), postscript (149kB, 10 pages, no figs).]

  36. P. Attard, 'Simulation of the Chemical Potential and the Cavity Free Energy of Dense Hard-Sphere Fluids', J. Chem. Phys. 98, 2225-2231 (1993).
    [View abstract. Download: latex (46kB), postscript (124kB, 16 pages, no figs).]

  37. D.R. Berard, P. Attard, and G.N. Patey, 'Cavitation of a Lennard-Jones Fluid between Hard-Walls, and the Possible Relevance to the Attraction Measured between Hydrophobic Surfaces' J. Chem. Phys. 98, 7236-7244 (1993).

  38. P. Attard and S.J. Miklavic, 'The Electrical Double Layer in Wall-Wall Hypernetted Chain Approximation with Bridge Functions', J. Chem. Phys. 99, 6078-6086 (1993).
    [View abstract. Download: latex (49kB), postscript (193kB, no figs).]

  39. P. Attard, 'Asymptotic Analysis of Primitive Model Electrolytes and the Electrical Double Layer', Phys. Rev. E 48, 3604-3621 (1993).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (2.6MB).]

  40. S.J. Miklavic and P. Attard, 'A Practical Approach to Solving the Double Layer Problem that Includes Effects of Ion Size and Correlation', J. Phys. Chem. 98, 4320-4326 (1994).

  41. J.L. Parker, P.M. Claesson, and P. Attard, 'Bubbles, Cavities, and the Long-Ranged Attraction between Hydrophobic Surfaces', J. Phys. Chem. 98, 8468-8480 (1994).

  42. P. Attard, 'Molecular Fluids: Site-Site Analysis and Hypernetted Chain Results with Bridge Functions for Lennard-Jones Dimers', Mol. Phys. 83, 273-291 (1994).

  43. P. Attard, 'Polymer Born-Green-Yvon Equation with Proper Triplet Superposition Approximation. Results for Hard-Sphere Chains.' J. Chem. Phys. 102 5411-5426 (1995).

  44. P. Attard, 'Ion Condensation in the Electric Double Layer and the Corresponding Poisson-Boltzmann Effective Surface Charge', J. Phys. Chem. 99, 14174-14181 (1995).
    [View abstract. Download: latex (55kB), postscript (412kB).]

  45. P. Attard, 'On the Density of Volume States in the Isobaric Ensemble', J. Chem. Phys. 103, 9884-9885 (1995).
    [View abstract. Download: latex (15kB), postscript (107kB).]

  46. P. Attard, 'On Bridging Bubbles between Hydrophobic Surfaces', Langmuir 12, 1693-1695 (1996).
    [View abstract. Download: latex (20kB), postscript (75kB, 4 pages, no fig.).]

  47. P. Attard, 'The Role of Solvent Depletion in Aggregation', Mol. Phys. 89, 691-709 (1996).
    [View abstract. Download: latex (69kB), postscript (256kB, 10 pages, no figs), fig1.eps (26kB), fig2.eps (11kB), fig3.eps (10kB).]

  48. P. Attard, 'Patterns of Hydrogen Bonding in Water and Ice', Physica A 233, 742-753 (1996).
    [View abstract. Download: latex (34kB), postscript (160kB, 6 pages, no figs).]

  49. R. Dickman, P. Attard, and V. Simonian, 'Entropic Forces in Binary Hard-Sphere Mixtures: Theory and Simulation', J. Chem. Phys. 107, 205-213 (1997).
    [View abstract. Download: latex (39kB), postscript (148kB, no figs), fig1.ps (45kB), fig2.ps (31kB), fig3.ps (71kB), fig4.ps (69kB), fig5.ps (26kB), fig6.ps (71kB), fig7.ps (69kB), fig8.ps (25kB), fig9.ps (59kB), fig10.ps (54kB).]

  50. P. Attard, 'A Grand Canonical Simulation Technique for Dense and Confined Fluids, with Application to a Lennard-Jones Fluid', J. Chem. Phys. 107, 3230-3238 (1997).
    [View abstract. Download: latex (52kB), postscript (277kB).]

  51. P. Attard, O. G. Jepps, and S. Marcelja, `Information Content of Signals using Correlation Function Expansions of the Entropy', Phys. Rev. E 56, 4052-4067 (1997).
    [View abstract. Download: RevTeX (109kB), postscript (279kB, 19 pages, no figs) fig1.ps (55kB), fig2.ps (19kB), fig3.ps (52kB), fig4.ps (21kB), fig5.ps (57kB).]

  52. P. Attard, ``Information Entropy due to Multi-level Digitisation'', Mol. Phys. 95, 439-447 (1998).
    [View abstract. Download: RevTeX (45kB), postscript (161kB, 16 pages, no figs) fig1a.ps (64kB), fig1b.ps (62kB), fig1c.ps (59kB).]

  53. A. Carambassis, L. C. Jonker, P. Attard, and M. W. Rutland, ``Forces Measured Between Hydrophobic Surfaces due to a Sub-microscopic Bridging Bubble'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 5357-5360 (1998).
    Common questions, and answers.
    [View abstract: local or APS. Download: postscript (61kB, 4 pages, no figs) fig1.eps (64kB), fig2.eps (304kB), fig3.eps (378kB).]

  54. A. McBride, M. Kohonen, and P. Attard, ``The Screening Length of Charge-asymmetric Electrolytes: a Hypernetted Chain Calculation'', J. Chem. Phys. 109, 2423-2428 (1998).
    [Download: pdf (123kB).]

  55. P. Attard, J. Schulz, and M. W. Rutland, ``Dynamic Surface Force Measurement. I. van der Waals Collision'', Rev. Sci. Instrum. 69, 3852-3866 (1998).
    [View abstract. Download: postscript (350kB, 39 pages, no figs) pdf (286kB, 15 pages, with figs).]

  56. P. Attard, A. Carambassis, and M. W. Rutland, ``Dynamic Surface Force Measurement. II. Friction and the Atomic Force Microscope'', Langmuir 15, 553-563 (1999).
    [View abstract. Download: postscript (197kB, 21 pages, no figs) fig2.1.eps (67kB), fig2.2.eps (94kB), fig2.3.eps (63kB), fig2.4.eps (108kB), fig2.5.eps (502kB), fig2.6a.eps (733kB), fig2.6b.eps (657kB), fig2.7a.eps (485kB), fig2.7b.eps (623kB), fig2.7c.eps (489kB), fig2.8a.eps (476kB), fig2.8b.eps (637kB), fig2.9a.eps (537kB), fig2.9b.eps (501kB), fig2.9c.eps (477kB), fig2.10.eps (41kB), fig2.11.eps (40kB).]

  57. P. Attard, ``The Explicit Density Functional and its Connection with Entropy Maximisation'', J. Stat. Phys. 100, 445-473 (2000). [View abstract. Download: postcript (477kB, 15 pages).]

  58. P. Attard, D. Antelmi, and I. Larson, ``Comparison of the Zeta Potential with the Surface Potential from Charge Titration'', Langmuir 16 ,1542-1552 (2000).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (126kB), postcript (1.4MB, 13 pages, with figures).]

  59. I. Larson and P. Attard, ``The Surface Charge of Silver Iodide and Several Metal Oxides. Are all Surfaces Nernstian?'', J. Colloid Interface Sci. 227, 152-163 (2000). [View abstract. Download: pdf (156kB), postcript (555kB, 15 pages, with figures).]

  60. P. Attard, ``Thermodynamic Analysis of Bridging Bubbles and a Quantitative Comparison with the Measured Hydrophobic Attraction'', Langmuir 16, 4455-4466 (2000).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (163kB), postcript (2.5MB, 16 pages, with figures).]

  61. A. Feiler, P. Attard, I. Larson, ``Calibration of the Torsional Spring Constant and the Lateral Photodiode Response of Friction Force Microscopes'', Rev. Sci. Instrum. 71, 2746-2750 (2000).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (173kB, 5 pages, with figures), MSWord (269kB, 15 pages, with figures), postcript (357kB, 10 pages, no figures), Fig1.eps (283kB), Fig2.eps (147kB), Fig3.eps (64kB), Fig4.eps (28kB), Fig5.eps (33kB), Fig6.eps (28kB), Fig7.eps (28kB).]

  62. A. Feiler, I. Larson, P. Jenkins and P. Attard, ``A Quantitative Study of Interaction Forces and Friction in Aqueous Colloidal Systems'', Langmuir 16, 10269-10277 (2000).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (116kB).]

  63. P. Attard, ``The Interaction and Deformation of Elastic Bodies: The Origin of Adhesion Hysteresis'', J. Phys. Chem. B, 104, 10635-10641 (2000).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (96kB, 7 pages) postcript (1.8MB, 9 pages).]

  64. P. Attard, ``Contact Angle Hysteresis in Solid-on-Solid Wetting'', Phys. Rev. E, 63, 011601 (2001).
    [View abstract: local or APS. Download: pdf (59kB) postcript (1.3MB).]

  65. P. Attard, ``Interaction and Deformation of Viscoelastic Particles. I. Non-adhesive Particles'', Phys. Rev. E 63, 061604 (2001).
    [View abstract: local or APS. Download: pdf (128kB) postcript (1.43MB).]

  66. P. Attard, ``Interaction and Deformation of Viscoelastic Particles. II. Adhesive Particles'', Langmuir 17, 4322-4328 (2001).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (102kB) postcript (3.77MB).]

  67. P. Attard and S. J. Miklavcic ``Effective Spring Constant of Bubbles and Droplets'', Langmuir 17, 8217-8223 (2001)
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (79kB), dvi (416kB).]

  68. S. J. Miklavcic and P. Attard, ``The equilibrium shape of an axisymmetric sessile drop subject to local stresses'', J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34, 7849-7866 (2001).
    [View abstract. Download: dvi (85kB).]

  69. P. Attard and S. J. Miklavcic ``Effective Spring Description of a Bubble or a Droplet Interacting with a Particle'', J. Colloid Interface Sci. 247, 255-257 (2002).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (71kB).]

  70. M. P. Moody and P. Attard, ``Curvature Dependent Surface Tension from a Simulation of a Cavity in a Lennard-Jones Liquid Close to Coexistence'', J. Chem. Phys. 115, 8967-8977, (2001).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (153kB).]

  71. G. S. Gllies, C. A. Prestidge, and P. Attard, ``Determination of the Separation in Colloid Probe Atomic Force Microscopy of Deformable Bodies'', Langmuir 17, 7955-7956 (2001).
    [View abstract. Download: pdf (29kB), MSword (65kB).]

  72. James W. G. Tyrrell and P. Attard, ``Images of Nanobubbles on Hydrophobic Surfaces and their Interactions'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 176104 (2001)
    [View abstract: local or APS. Download: pdf (388kB) postcript (5.7MB).]



    For conference proceedings, book chapters, reviews, and unpublished material, see here.
    Refereed Papers, Year: 1987, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 01

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