Viscosities of phase-separated glasses

Nanostructures from Phase Separated Polymers

Compositional Control of Phase-Separated Cellular Bodies

Cellular bodies such as P bodies and PML nuclear bodies (PML NBs) appear to be phase-separated liquids organized by multivalent interactions among proteins and RNA molecules. Although many components of various cellular bodies are known, general principles that define body composition are lacking. We modeled cellular bodies using several engineered multivalent proteins and RNA. In vitro and in ...

Diatom structures templated by phase-separated fluids.

An experimentally motivated model is proposed for the formation of fluid-phase templates corresponding to the porous silica skeletons of diatoms, single-cell organisms found in marine and freshwater environments. It is shown that phase-separation processes on a planar surface may give rise to a quasi-static mold that could direct the deposition of condensing silica to form complex arrays of por...

Tunneling magnetoresistance in phase-separated manganite nanobridges

The manganite La,Pr,Ca MnO3 is well known for its micrometer-scale phase separation into coexisting ferromagnetic metallic FMM and insulating regions. Fabrication of bridges with widths smaller than the phase-separation length scale has allowed us to probe the magnetic properties of individual phase-separated regions. At the onset of phase separation, a magnetic field induced insulator-to-metal...

Phase-separated composite films: experiment and theory

A different phase-separation process is capable of producing a composite system consisting of a very thin layer of liquid crystal in contact with a similarly thin layer of polymer. The morphology of the polymer depends on the composition of the prepolymer-liquid crystal mixture and the rate of polymerization. A simple one-dimensional theory is able to describe the essential features of this pro...