Quasiperiodic Tip Splitting in Directional Solidification

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2001-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0101289v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4604 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4604

We report experimental results on the tip splitting dynamics of seaweed growth in directional solidification of succinonitrile alloys with poly(ethylene oxide) or acetone as solutes. The seaweed or dense branching morphology was selected by solidifying grains which are oriented close to the {111} plane. Despite the random appearance of the growth, a quasiperiodic tip splitting morphology was observed in which the tip alternately splits to the left and to the right. The tip splitting frequency f was found to be related to the growth velocity V as a power law f V^{1.5}. This finding is consistent with the predictions of a tip splitting model that is also presented. Small anisotropies are shown to lead to different kinds of seaweed morphologies.

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