Until recently,4-8 however, it was also believed that in the vicinity of the spinodal the size of the critical nucleus should increase with increasing quench depth, and diverge at the spinodal.3 The divergence is the result of a linearization of mean field theory. Here we use a combination of neutron scattering on polymer blends and Monte Carlo simulations of the Ising model to show that the critical nucleus size does not diverge at the spinodal but, in fact, decreases with increasing quench depth.
- JPCB 2006 110 3692
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