Spinoidal

Table 11.57. Variation of spinoidal temperature (T) and number of monomers between crosslinks (N ) with dose [Briber and Bauer, 1988]...

The discussion in this paper appties to wide classes of phase transformations that occur by a nucleation and growth mechanism. Examples of such transformations indude many common transformations, such as boiling and freezing of a liquid and condensation of a vapor, as well as some much less well known transformations, such as oxidation of a metal surface and formation of voids in nudear reactor materials. There are some types of phase transformations, such as spinoidal decomposition, that occur as soon as they are thermodynamically allowed and do not require nudeation. 

Dav79 ] Davis, R, Flower, H.M., and West, D.RF., The Decomposition of Ti-Mo AUoy Martensites by Nucleation and Growth and Spinoidal Mechanisms, Acta MetaU., Vol 27, 1979, p. 1041-1052... 

The SZS-1 glass shows a spinoidal decomposition mechanism prior to crystallisation during glass heating, which results in a highly interconnected microstructure of glass. 

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