title: Kinetic model of phase separation in binary mixtures with hard mobile impurities.
abstract: We develop a mean-field rate-equation model for the kinetics of phase separation in binary mixtures with hard mobile impurities. For impurities preferentially wet by one of the components, the phase separation is arrested in the late stage. The "steady-state" domain size depends strongly on both the particle diffusion constant and the particle concentration. We compare theoretical results with the simulation data and find good qualitative agreement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Ginzburg
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jasnow
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Balazs