IMPURITY SOLVATION IN A LIQUID

A set of model calculations is presented concerning the problem of imp urity solvation. The methods include lattice gas, evaluated exactly as well as in the mean-field approximation, and molecular-dynamics simul ation. Our results are in quantitative accord with simple energy balan ce arguments, but a solvation parameter suggested by Ancilotto, Lerner and Cole [J. Low Temp. Phys. 101, 1123 (1995)] is found to be nonuniv ersal. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.