Phase diagram evolution

Traditionally, turbidity or opacity has been used for detecting the cloud-point curve (CPC), which approximated the bimodal of the phase diagram. Evolution of this approach involved application of laser light scattering, which combined with small specimen size and precise temperature control led to the pulse-induced critical scattering (PICS) for spinodal determination. Unfortunately, the method is limited to the size of heterogeneity > 100 nm and the difference in refractive index of the two phases > 0.01. ° i... 

The phase distribution observed in the alloys deposited from AlCb-NaCl is very similar to that of Mn-Al alloys electrodeposited from the same chloroaluminate melt [126 129], Such similarity may also be found between the phase structure of Cr-Al and Mn-Al alloys produced by rapid solidification from the liquid [7, 124], These observations are coincident with the resemblance of the phase diagrams for Cr-Al and Mn-Al, which contain several intermetallic compounds with narrow compositional ranges [20], inhibition of the nucleation and growth of ordered, often low symmetry, intermetallic structures is commonly observed in non-equilibrium processing. Phase evolution is the result of a balance between the interface velocity and... 

Figure 16. Schematic protoquark star evolution corresponding to Fig. 15 plotted in the phase diagram for 2-flavor quark matter...

Fig. 5.12 Two different 3-D representations of the phase diagram of 3-methylpyridine plus wa-ter(H/D). (a) T-P-x(3-MP) for three different H2O/D2O concentration ratios. The inner ellipse (light gray) and corresponding critical curves hold for (0 < W(D20)/wt% < 17). Intermediate ellipses stand for (17(D20)/wt% < 21), and the outer ellipses hold for (21(D20)/wt% < 100. There are four types of critical lines, and all extrema on these lines correspond to double critical points, (b) Phase diagram at approximately constant critical concentration 3-MP (x 0.08) showing the evolution of the diagram as the deuterium content of the solvent varies. The white line is the locus of temperature double critical points whose extrema (+) corresponds to the quadruple critical point. Note both diagrams include portions at negative pressure (Visak, Z. P., Rebelo, L. P. N. and Szydlowski, J. J. Phys. Chem. B. 107, 9837 (2003))...

Figure 3 Sketch of an example of the evolution of a system during a temperature-programmed desorption experiment in the system s phase diagram. The fat line indicates the change of the temperature and coverage during the experiment, and the thin lines indicate the phase transitions (see text). The snapshots below the order-disorder transition line are taken during a simulation of the experiment. The coverages are 0.3, 0.5, and 0.7 ML. The snapshots above the order-disorder transition line show adlayers of 0.3 and 0.7 ML at high temperatures...

Fig. 4. Activity of various intermetallic phases of Ni and Zr for electrolytic hydrogen evolution. The phase diagram is also shown. From ref. 83, by permission of Elsevier Sequoia.

Many polymer blends or block polymer melts separate microscopically into complex meso-scale structures. It is a challenge to predict the multiscale structure of polymer systems including phase diagram, morphology evolution of micro-phase separation, density and composition profiles, and molecular conformations in the interfacial region between different phases. The formation mechanism of micro-phase structures for polymer blends or block copolymers essentially roots in a delicate balance between entropic and enthalpic contributions to the Helmholtz energy. Therefore, it is the key to establish a molecular thermodynamic model of the Helmholtz energy considered for those complex meso-scale structures. In this paper, we introduced a theoretical method based on a lattice model developed in this laboratory to study the multi-scale structure of polymer systems. First, a molecular thermodynamic model for uniform polymer system is presented. This model can... 

Fig. 16 Schematic electronic phase diagram of C, compoimds, including the evolution of the Neel temperature, TN (open squares) for the family (NH3)K3 IRbIC60 (0

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