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1National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.
Abstract:
We investigate the pattern formation on the solid substrate of phase-separating films containing mobile wetting particles with a preferential attraction for one component of the mixtures. The presence of mobile particles under the surface-particle interaction modulation breaks the isotropy of the bulk phase-separating process, leading to the formation of orientational structure due to the interplay between phase separation and wetting particle ordering under a modulated pinning potential at the late stage. Simulations suggest that the phase-separation morphology can be changed through the adjustment of the wettable-phase-particle interaction and the surface-particle interaction. It provides some important insights into this "wetting-directed spinodal decomposition."
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