Abstract
The phase separation of isopycnic polystyrene-diethyl malonate solutions has been studied by investigating the microstructure of polymer membranes. Polymer solutions underwent spinodal decomposition and coarsening via a thermally induced phase separation procedure, and supercritical CO 2 extraction was employed to remove solvent, resulting in microporous membranes. At relatively short coarsening times, the coarsening rate of the cell size can be expressed as a power law in time with the exponent increasing with increasing quench depth; for deep quenches, the growth rate has an exponent of 1/3 in agreement with the classic theories for coarsening by Ostwald ripening or coalescence
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