Kinetics of the formation of metal-containing polymer composite

Numerical simulation of the formation kinetics of the metallic phase in a p olymer system due to thermal decomposition of metal-containing reagents was performed. It was assumed that the nuclei of the new phase are formed due to homogeneous nucleation and their growth is governed by the diffusion pro cesses. It was shown that the model qualitatively reproduces the available experimental data. The effect of the regime of addition of a decomposing re agent on the particle sizes was analyzed. It was disclosed that polymodal p article size distributions may be formed in a systems under certain specifi c regimes.