Effect of Ordering on Spinodal Decomposition of Liquid-Crystal/Polymer Mixtures

Details Effect of Ordering on Spinodal Decomposition of Liquid-Crystal/Polymer Mixtures Effect of Ordering on Spinodal Decomposition of Liquid-Crystal/Polymer Mixtures

1998-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9810166v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.60.R29

Partially phase-separated liquid-crystal/polymer dispersions display highly fibrillar domain morphologies that are dramatically different from the typical structures found in isotropic mixtures. To explain this, we numerically explore the coupling between phase ordering and phase separation kinetics in model two-dimensional fluid mixtures phase separating into a nematic phase, rich in liquid crystal, coexisting with an isotropic phase, rich in polymer. We find that phase ordering can lead to fibrillar networks of the minority polymer-rich phase.

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