Exsolution by spinodal decomposition in multicomponent mineral solutions

Spinodal decomposition in multicomponent fluid mixtures: A molecular dynamics study.

A closer look at arrested spinodal decomposition in protein solutions.

Concentrated aqueous solutions of the protein lysozyme undergo a liquid-solid transition upon a temperature quench into the unstable spinodal region below a characteristic arrest temperature of T(f) = 15 °C. We use video microscopy and ultra-small angle light scattering in order to investigate the arrested structures as a function of initial concentration, quench temperature and rate of the tem...

Spinodal decomposition in microemulsions

NONLINEAR KINETICS OF SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION, AND DISSOLUTION OF INHOMOGENElTIES FORMED BY SPINODAL DECOMPOSITION IN POLYMER BLENDS

Nonlinear kinetics of both spinodal decomposition at early stages, and the dissolution of homogeneities formed during spinodal decomposition,is studied. Variation of the scattering intensity during a complete cycle consisting of a step temperature change from T i in the one-phase. region to T2 in the two-phase region, a period of spinodal decomposition followed by a temperature drop from T2 bac...

Formation of metastable phases by spinodal decomposition

Metastable phases may be spontaneously formed from other metastable phases through nucleation. Here we demonstrate the spontaneous formation of a metastable phase from an unstable equilibrium by spinodal decomposition, which leads to a transient coexistence of stable and metastable phases. This phenomenon is generic within the recently introduced scenario of the landscape-inversion phase transi...