Abstract
Mixtures of polyisoprene and poly(ethylene-propylene) have been studied using time-resolved elastic light scattering. For off-critical quenches just into the two-phase coexistence region, highly monodisperse spheres are observed, whose radii grow with a power law R(t)=R0t1/2. The monodispersity and growth law are explained as a heterogeneous nucleation process with a simple model equation for the growth of isolated spheres, and allow the study of the kinetics of domain growth for metastable thermodynamic processes in unprecedented detail.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 863-866 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1990 |