Onuki, A. ; Puri, S. (1999) Spinodal decomposition in gels Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, 59 (2). R1331-R1334. ISSN 1539-3755
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Official URL: http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v59/i2/pR1331_1
Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.59.R1331
Abstract
We construct a Ginzburg-Landau model for gels undergoing spinodal decomposition in terms of the polymer volume fraction and a deformation tensor. We numerically demonstrate that the domain growth is extremely slowed down in late stages, where the surface tension force, which drives the coarsening in usual fluids, is cancelled by the elastic force. The patterns closely resemble those observed in highly viscoelastic, asymmetric binary mixtures.
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