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Phase Coarsening as a Relaxation Phenomenon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

S. P. Marsh
S. P. Marsh*
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375-5343
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Abstract

Phase coarsening, also known as Ostwald ripening, is generally treated as a growth phenomenon in which the average particle size increases during isothermal aging. However, coarsening is a relaxation process driven by a reduction in the excess interfacial energy of a two-phase structure. This viewpoint introduces a single temporal offset parameter that relates the experimental clock to the asymptotic time scale. Analysis of ripening as a relaxation phenomenon permits accurate determination of the kinetics that is less sensitive to particle morphology. Implications of this approach on measurement and interpretation of ripening kinetics will be discussed.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 580: Symposium E – Nucleation & Growth Processes in Materials , 1999 , 15
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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