Demonstrating the existence of this phenomenon in miscible fluids will open up a new area of study for materials science.
“If gradients of composition and temperature in miscible polymer/monomer systems create stresses that cause convection then it would strongly suggest that stress-induced flows could occur in many applications with miscible materials. The results of this investigation could then have potential implications in polymer blending (phase separation), colloidal formation, fiber spinning, polymerization kinetics, membrane formation and polymer processing in space.”
SCR Panel, December 2000.
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