Morphology: At early times, system contains very long (but not thin and fibrillar) LC-rich domains. At late times, these domains shorten but are still elongated.
Resulting intermediate/late-time structure: Elongated LC-rich domains (minor phase) in a polymer-rich matrix (major phase). View phi and S profiles.
Evolution of degree of PS and PO.
for PS (red): delta_phi(t) = phimax(t) - phimin(t)
for PO (blue): S(t) = Smax(t)
Plot indicates that PS is significant at t~6 and PO is significant at t~8. phi and S profiles reveal that these times (at which this plot indicates a high degree of PS and PO) represent when PS and PO begin to be significant. (That is, there is at least one or two small regions that have strongly phase separated or ordered.)
For this quench, PS is strong by t=6. PO, however, is not well-established until t~14, when the LCs in several LC-rich domains are highly ordered. This time is not that much later than t=8, but at t=8 there is only one higly ordered LC-rich droplet.
#1: "new" k1 -- from phi-based S(k).
R ~ t1/3 --> slower than t1/4.
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Last updated August 1, 1999.