“…We show that during the evolution of the system to a steady state, the interplay between phase separation, natural interconversion, and forced interconversion may generate novel dissipative structures—a nonequilibrium bicontinuous microemulsion, revealed by MD, or a nonequilibrium spatially modulated state, as observed in MC studies. We show that under certain constraints, the three models with different origins of interconversion i.e., our three microscopic models: HL ( 12 , 31 ), DCM ( 30 , 33 ), and HCS, as well as the model of Glotzer et al ( 21 – 23 , 26 – 29 ) may exhibit identical behavior.…”