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Materials science

the tendency of a flat solid-liquid interface in a growing alloy crystal to break into cells or dendrites when perturbations are amplified by solute diffusion.

In materials science, Mullins-Sekerka instability refers to the tendency of a flat solid-liquid interface in a growing alloy crystal to break into cells or dendrites when perturbations are amplified by solute diffusion. This meaning comes from Mullins (1964) in Journal of Applied Physics.[1]

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References

Mullins, W. W., & Sekerka, R. F. (1964). Stability of a Planar Interface During Solidification of a Dilute Binary Alloy. Journal of Applied Physics, 35(2), 444-451. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1713333

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