Tricontinuous structure in a homopolymer–homopolymer–random-copolymer ternary mixture quenched under the tricritical point
- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 52 (5) , 5142-5145
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.52.5142
Abstract
We proposed a dynamical method to simulate the time change in the domain structure for a homopolymer–homopolymer–random-copolymer ternary mixture quenched under its tricritical point. The system studied underwent a phase separation into tricontinuous domain structure. The growth of the domain structure obeys a power law and the dynamical scaling law is valid in the late stage of phase separation.
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