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It is useful to view phase separation as occurring either by nucleation or by spinodal decomposition. Nucleation is associated with metastability, i.e. the existence of an energy barrier and the occurrence of a rare but large energy fluctuation.1–4 Spinodal decomposition, on the other hand, refers to phase separation in an initially unstable system; one in which even the smallest fluctuation will grow because an energy barrier is negligible or zero.5–7
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Goldburg, W.I. (1981). The Dynamics of Phase Separation Near the Critical Point: Spinodal Decomposition and Nucleation. In: Chen, SH., Chu, B., Nossal, R. (eds) Scattering Techniques Applied to Supramolecular and Nonequilibrium Systems. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 73. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4061-4_18
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