Computer simulation study of phase separation in a binary mixture with a glass-forming component

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 240, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 453-479

  Sappelt, Dirk ^a   Jäckle, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coarsening mechanism; Glass transition; Phase separation; Spinodal decomposition

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GLASS TRANSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE COMPOSITION; PHASE SEPARATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

CAHN-HILLARD EQUATION; COARSENING MECHANISMS; SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 0031166214     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00048-4     Document Type: Article

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