Entropy-driven phase separation and configurational correlations on a lattice: Some rigorous results

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 2 I, 2001, Pages 0215041-0215046

  Gujrati, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; ENTROPY; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMERIZATION;

ENTROPY-DRIVEN PHASE SEPARATION; FULLY PACKED (FP) ATHERMAL SYSTEMS; POLYMER PHYSICS;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 4243221894     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.021504     Document Type: Article

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