Surface-directed spinodal decomposition: Phenomenology and numerical results
- 1 October 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 46 (8), R4487-R4489
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.46.r4487
Abstract
We present a phenomenological theory for surface effects on spinodal decomposition in mixtures and related phenomena such as the dynamics of surface segregation. Numerical solutions of our equations show striking similarity to recent results from experiments on polymer mixtures with one component preferentially attracted to a wall.Keywords
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