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Surface-directed spinodal decomposition: modelling and numerical simulations
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In this article, the dynamics of phase separation of a critical or near-critical binary mixture in the presence of a surface with a preferential attraction for one of the components of the mixture is considered.Abstract:
We critically review the modelling and simulations of surface-directed spinodal decomposition, namely, the dynamics of phase separation of a critical or near-critical binary mixture in the presence of a surface with a preferential attraction for one of the components of the mixture.read more
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Wetting at polymer surfaces and interfaces
Mark Geoghegan,Georg Krausch +1 more
TL;DR: The authors review progress from the past few years in research into the influence of a boundary in polymer blends, concentrating largely on the wetting transition, and the growth of wetting layers, where they pay particular attention to blends in which hydrodynamic flow plays a dominant role.
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Kinetics of Phase Transitions
TL;DR: In this paper, the evolution of a homogeneous multi-component mixture which has been rendered thermodynamically unstable by a rapid quench below the critical temperature is reviewed, and results for cases with both nonconserved and conserved order parameters are discussed.
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Phase separation on solid surfaces: nucleation, coarsening and coalescence kinetics
TL;DR: In this article, the stability of thin films toward clustering, non-uniform film formation during deposition and evolution in the post-deposition phase are reviewed with an emphasis on developments during the period from 1990 to present.
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Interplay between wetting and phase separation in binary fluid mixtures: roles of hydrodynamics
TL;DR: In this paper, the phase-separation kinetics and morphology are affected by the preferential wetting of a solid surface by one component of a binary fluid mixture, which is crucially dependent upon whether the spinodal decomposition is bicontinuous-type or droplet-type.
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Phase Transitions of Polymer Blends and Block Copolymer Melts in Thin Films
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of results obtained with the Self-Consistent Field Theory of Phase Separation in Thin Films, including block copolymers in the weak and strong segregation limit.
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Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
TL;DR: The field of phase transitions and critical phenomena continues to be active in research, producing a steady stream of interesting and fruitful results as discussed by the authors, and the major aim of this serial is to provide review articles that can serve as standard references for research workers in the field.
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Theory of Dynamic Critical Phenomena
TL;DR: The renormalization group theory has been applied to a variety of dynamic critical phenomena, such as the phase separation of a symmetric binary fluid as mentioned in this paper, and it has been shown that it can explain available experimental data at the critical point of pure fluids, and binary mixtures, and at many magnetic phase transitions.
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Theory of phase-ordering kinetics
TL;DR: The theory of phase-ordering dynamics that is the growth of order through domain coarsening when a system is quenched from the homogeneous phase into a broken-symmetry phase, with the emphasis on recent developments, is reviewed in this paper.
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Late stages of spinodal decomposition in binary mixtures
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of hydrodynamic interactions on the coarsening rate of a cloud of droplets combining through diffusive coalescence is examined in detail, and the competing LifshitzSlyozov or evaporation-condensation mechanism is dominant.
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Walks, walls, wetting, and melting
TL;DR: In this paper, a general mechanism yielding phase transitions in one-dimensional or linear systems is recalled and applied to various wetting and melting phenomena in (d = 2)-dimensional systems, including fluid films and p×1 commensurate adsorbed phases, in which interfaces and domain walls can be modelled by noncrossing walks.