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Spinodal Decomposition
Today’s topics:
• Spinodal microstructures
"2 F
• The chemical spinodal is defined by 2
=0
and it coincides with the limit to "X B
metastability with respect to infinitesimal
fluctuations of composition.
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Solution to modified diffusion equation
with
2
+ % 2K ( 2 .
R(" ) = # D˜ " -1+ ' 2 2*
" 0
! , &$ f $c ) /
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Solution to modified diffusion equation…
! "
~!"# 4 2
R ~ "# " # 4 ~ "# 2
!
Inside spinodal
!
! ~ "# 4
! 8
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Solution to modified diffusion equation…
R( " )
"max • Microstructure of
developing
structure is
! ! " periodic with
wavelength
determined by
"c! 2#
"max =
$max
!
Solution to modified diffusion equation…
K 2
! R(" ) = 0 and thus 1+ 2 2 "
2 c
=0
# f #c
#2 f #c 2
so "c = $ and thus "c = 2 "max
2K
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Spinodal microstructures
• The spinodal instability and the rapid growth
of waves at βmax leads to periodic modulations
of composition. In elastically anisotropic
alloys, the spinodal structure tends to be
aligned along elastically soft directions.
Figures removed due to copyright restrictions.
See Figures 18.16 and 18.17 in Balluffi, Robert W., Samuel M. Allen, and W. Craig Carter.
Kinetics of Materials. Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons, 2005. ISBN: 0471246891.