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Surface-directed spinodal decomposition: modelling and numerical simulations

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, , Citation Sanjay Puri and Harry L Frisch 1997 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 9 2109 DOI 10.1088/0953-8984/9/10/003

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1 School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India

2 Institut fur Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

3 Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA

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  1. Received 19 November 1996

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Abstract

We critically review the modelling and simulations of surface-directed spinodal decomposition, namely, the dynamics of phase separation of a critical or near-critical binary mixture in the presence of a surface with a preferential attraction for one of the components of the mixture.

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