We report that colloid-in-liquid crystal (CLC) gels can be formed via a two-step process that involves spinodal decomposition of a dispersion of colloidal particles in an isotropic phase of mesogens followed by nucleation of nematic domains within the colloidal network defined by the spinodal process. This pathway contrasts to previously reported routes leading to the formation of CLC gels, whi...

This paper gives theoretical results on spinodal decomposition for the CahnHillard equation. We prove a mechanism which explains why most solutions for the Cahn-Hilliard equation which start near a homogeneous equilibrium within the spinodal interval exhibit phase separation with a characteristic wavelength when exiting a ball of radius R. Namely, most solutions are driven into a region of phas...

The diabatic approach to collective nuclear motion is reformulated in the local-density approximation in order to treat the normal modes of a spherical nuclear droplet analytically. In a first application the adiabatic isoscalar modes are studied and results for the eigenvalues of compressional (bulk) and pure surface modes are presented as function of density and temperature inside the droplet...