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Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1679–1682 (1996)

Kinetic Pathways of Order-Disorder and Order-Order Transitions in Weakly Segregated Microstructured Systems

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Shuyan Qi
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

Zhen-Gang Wang
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

Received 17 July 1995; published in the issue dated 4 March 1996

The kinetics of hexagonal to disordered and hexagonal to body-centered-cubic phase transitions in weakly segregated, microstructured systems (e.g., diblock copolymers) is studied using a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) approach. Both computer simulation of the TDGL equation and analysis of a simplified two-mode model reveal nontrivial pathways during the transition.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.1679
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.1679
PACS:
81.10.Aj, 64.70.-p, 81.30.Hd, 83.70.Hq