Spinodal Decomposition in a Model Colloid-Polymer Mixture in Microgravity
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Original Entry by Michelle Borkin, AP225 Fall 2009
Contents
Overview
"Spinodal Decomposition in a Model Colloid-Polymer Mixture in Microgravity."
A. E. Bailey, W. C. K. Poon, R. J. Christianson, A. B. Schofield, U. Gasser, V. Prasad, S. Manley, P. N. Segre, L. Cipelletti, W. V. Meyer, M. P. Doherty, S. Sankaran, A. L. Jankovsky, W. L. Shiley, J. P. Bowen, J. C. Eggers, C. Kurta, T. Lorik, Jr., P. N. Pusey, and D. A. Weitz, Physical Review Letters 99, 205701 (2007).
Keywords
Colloidal Dispersion, Polymer, Spinodal decomposition, quench, light scattering, coarsening, depletion interactions
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For more information about this experiment and others from the "Physics of Colloids in Space" project, go to:
- http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/experiments/EXPPCS.html
- http://www.seas.harvard.edu/weitzlab/research/nasaproj.html
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