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For the PMMA/NMP/glycerol system, model predictions agree well with real-time data obtained from light scattering measurements. Predicted pore growth rate curves exhibit a relative maximum with both quench temperature and nonsolvent composition. For shallow quenches (higher quench temperatures and lower nonsolvent content) near a phase boundary, the pore growth rate increases with increasing quench depth while for deep quenches, where the composition of the polymer rich phase approaches that of a glass, the pore growth rate decreases with increasing quench depth. This behavior seems to be a universal phenomenon in quenched polymer solutions which can undergo a glass transition, and is result of an interplay between thermodynamic and kinetic driving forces for phase separation.","abstract_html":"The Cahn-Hilliard approach is extended to the study of phase separation in ternary polymer/solvent/nonsolvent systems. 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