Phase behavior, microstructure, and phase separation kinetics in water/compressible fluid/surfactant mixtures

he primary goal of this dissertation is to develop a methodology for finding equilibrium phases that have the same density (isopycnic phases) and are therefore able to simulate phase separation in the absence of gravity. Understanding the kinetics of phase separation is an important step in exploiting the slow phase separation of mixtures in space to produce unique materials. Isopycnic phases are located in ternary mixtures containing H;Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) was performed on ;Phase separation kinetics were measured for a...