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Published on: March 26, 2013
Early sedimentation and crossover kinetics in an off-critical phase-separating liquid mixture
1Laboratoire Physique de la Matière Condensée et Nanostructures, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France. Jean.Colombani@lpmcn.univ-lyon1.fr
Abstract:
Early sedimentation in a liquid mixture off-critically quenched in its miscibility gap was investigated with a light attenuation technique. The time evolution of the droplet distribution is characteristic of an emulsion coalescing by gravitational collisions. This sedimentation behavior gave access to the phase-separating kinetics, and a crossover on the way toward equilibrium was observed, which separates free growth from conserved order-parameter coarsening with a crossover time fitting well with theoretical predictions.
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