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Steinrücken E, Weigler M, Kloth S, Vogel M. Complex dynamics of partially freezable confined water revealed by combined experimental and computational studies. J Chem Phys 2024; 161:014706. [PMID: 38949591 DOI: 10.1063/5.0215451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/02/2024] Open
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We investigate water dynamics in mesoporous silica across partial crystallization by combining broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and molecular dynamics simulations (MDS). Exploiting the fact that not only BDS but also NMR field-cycling relaxometry and stimulated-echo experiments provide access to dynamical susceptibilities in broad frequency and temperature ranges, we study both the fully liquid state above the melting point Tm and the dynamics of coexisting water and ice phases below this temperature. It is found that partial crystallization leads to a change in the temperature dependence of rotational correlation times τ, which occurs in addition to previously reported dynamical crossovers of confined water and depends on the pore diameter. Furthermore, we observe that dynamical susceptibilities of water are strongly asymmetric in the fully liquid state, whereas they are much broader and nearly symmetric in the partially frozen state. Finally, water in the nonfreezable interfacial layer below Tm does not exhibit a much debated dynamical crossover at ∼220 K. We argue that its dynamics is governed by a static energy landscape, which results from the interaction with the bordering silica and ice surfaces and features a Gaussian-like barrier distribution. Consistently, our MDS analysis of the motional mechanism reveals a hopping motion of water in thin interfacial layers. The rotational correlation times of the confined ice phases follow Arrhenius laws. While the values of τ depend on the pore diameter, freezable water in various types of confinements and mixtures shows similar activation energies of Ea ≈ 0.43 eV.
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- Elisa Steinrücken
- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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Lin X, Zhang C, Hu S, Chen R. Heterogeneous ice nucleation of salt solution in porous media. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:094501. [PMID: 38426515 DOI: 10.1063/5.0190862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
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Water ubiquitously exists with dissolved salt in both natural and engineered porous media, such as soil, rock, concrete, and tissue; therefore, its freezing temperature depression behavior is of particular interest to various scientific communities tackling with mechanics and physics of porous media. To date, it remains elusive which physical mechanism accounts for its freezing temperature depression and how dissolved ions affect it. Herein, a series of pore-scale experiments were designated to investigate the freezing temperature of salt solutions in tubes with varying pore diameters, pore solution volumes, solid-liquid interfacial areas, ion concentrations, and ion types. The results reveal two main findings: (i) the freezing temperature depression of pore solutions is governed by the heterogeneous ice nucleation (HIN) at the water-solid interface, as evidenced by the observation that the freezing temperature decreases with the decreasing solid-liquid interfacial areas, regardless of pore diameter and pore solution volume; (ii) the dissolved salts alter HIN processes via changing the osmotic potential across the ice embryo-liquid water interface, as indicated by the observation that the freezing temperature is mainly determined by the salt concentration irrespective of salt types. Furthermore, the classical nucleation theory model is adapted for the freezing behavior of pore solutions by including an osmotic potential term. The model shows excellent performance in capturing experimental data with various pore solution concentrations, further substantiating the HIN as the physical mechanism governing pore solution freezing.
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- Xin Lin
- College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Building Safety and Energy Efficiency, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Building Safety and Energy Efficiency, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Research Center for Advanced Underground Space Technologies, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Building Safety and Energy Efficiency, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China; and College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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Schiller V, Vogel M. Ice-Water Equilibrium in Nanoscale Confinement. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:016201. [PMID: 38242666 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.016201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/16/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
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We show that 2D ^{2}H NMR spectra enable valuable insights into the nature of an ice-water equilibrium in nanoscale confinement, which extends over a broad temperature range. In particular, 2D ^{2}H NMR line-shape analysis allows us to determine the timescale on which the coexisting ice and water phases exchange molecules. For D_{2}O in a silica nanopore with a diameter of 5.4 nm, we find that the residence time of a water molecule in either phase is characterized by an NMR exchange time of τ_{X}=5.7 ms at 220 K. Thus, the ice-water equilibrium is highly dynamic, which is an important aspect for an understanding of deeply cooled confined and, possibly, bulk waters.
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- Verena Schiller
- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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Ananiadou A, Papamokos G, Steinhart M, Floudas G. Effect of confinement on the dynamics of 1-propanol and other monohydroxy alcohols. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:184504. [PMID: 34773957 DOI: 10.1063/5.0063967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We report the effect of confinement on the dynamics of three monohydroxy alcohols (1-propanol, 2-ethyl-1-hexanol, and 4-methyl-3-heptanol) differing in their chemical structure and, consequently, in the dielectric strength of the "Debye" process. Density functional theory calculations in bulk 1-propanol identified both linear and ring-like associations composed of up to five repeat units. The simulation results revealed that the ring structures, with a low dipole moment (∼2 D), are energetically preferred over the linear assemblies with a dipole moment of 2.18 D per repeat unit. Under confinement in nanoporous alumina (in templates with pore diameters ranging from 400 to 20 nm), all dynamic processes were found to speed up irrespective of the molecular architecture. The characteristic freezing temperatures of the α and the Debye-like processes followed the pore size dependence: Ta,D=Ta,D bulk-A/d1/2, where d is the pore diameter. The characteristic "freezing" temperatures for the Debye-like (the slow process for confined 1-propanol is non-Debye) and the α-processes decrease, respectively, by 6.5 and 13 K in confined 1-propanol, by 9.5 and 19 K in confined 2-ethyl-1-hexanol, and by 9 and 23 K in confined 4-methyl-3-heptanol within the same 25 nm pores. In 2-ethyl-1-hexanol, confinement reduced the number of linearly associated repeats from approximately heptamers in the bulk to dimers within 25 pores. In addition, the slower process in bulk 2-ethyl-1-hexanol and 4-methyl-3-heptanol, where the signal is dominated by ring-like supramolecular assemblies, is clearly non-Debye. The results suggest that the effect of confinement is dominant in the latter assemblies.
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- Antonela Ananiadou
- Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
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- Institut für Chemie neuer Materialien, Universität Osnabrück, D-49069 Osnabrück, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
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Choi J, Kim S, Yoo J, Choi SH, Char K. Self-Healable Antifreeze Hydrogel Based on Dense Quadruple Hydrogen Bonding. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Jewon Choi
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- The National Creative Research Initiative Center for Intelligent Hybrids, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Hongik University, Seoul 04066, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Hongik University, Seoul 04066, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
- The National Creative Research Initiative Center for Intelligent Hybrids, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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Tarnacka M, Geppert-Rybczyńska M, Dulski M, Grelska J, Jurkiewicz K, Grzybowska K, Kamiński K, Paluch M. Local structure and molecular dynamics of highly polar propylene carbonate derivative infiltrated within alumina and silica porous templates. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:064701. [PMID: 33588559 DOI: 10.1063/5.0040150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Herein, we examined the effect of finite size and wettability on the structural dynamics and the molecular arrangement of the propylene carbonate derivative, (S)-(-)-4-methoxymethyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-one (assigned as s-methoxy-PC), incorporated into alumina and silica porous templates of pore diameters d = 4 nm-10 nm using Raman and broadband dielectric spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and x-ray diffraction. It was demonstrated that only subtle changes in the molecular organization and short-range order of confined s-methoxy-PC molecules were detected. Yet, a significant deviation of the structural dynamics and depression of the glass transition temperatures, Tg, was found for all confined samples with respect to the bulk material. Interestingly, these changes correlate with neither the finite size effects nor the interfacial energy but seem to vary with wettability, generally. Nevertheless, for s-methoxy-PC infiltrated into native (more hydrophilic) and modified (more hydrophobic) silica templates of the same nanochannel size (d = 4 nm), a change in the dynamics and Tg was negligible despite a significant variation in wettability. These results indicated that although wettability might be a suitable variable to predict alteration of the structural dynamics and depression of the glass transition temperature, other factors, i.e., surface roughness and the density packing, might also have a strong contribution to the observed confinement effects.
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- Magdalena Tarnacka
- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- Silesian Center of Education and Interdisciplinary Research, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1A, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia in Katowice, 75 Pułku Piechoty 1, 41-500 Chorzow, Poland
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Ananiadou A, Papamokos G, Steinhart M, Floudas G. Nanometer Confinement Induces Nematic Order in 1-Dodecanol. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:10850-10857. [PMID: 33185090 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c08403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The phase state and molecular dynamics of 1-dodecanol are studied in the bulk and under nanometer confinement within self-ordered nanoporous alumina templates. A rotator phase in the bulk is absent under confinement. A nematic liquid crystalline phase is formed instead in pores with diameters from 400 down to 25 nm. Results are based on the changes in temperature-dependence of dielectric permittivity and X-ray diffraction. The phase diagram under confinement is explored, and the limits of the nematic-to-isotropic and crystalline-to-nematic phase transitions are identified. The phase diagram allows for a direct transition from the liquid to the low-temperature crystalline phase in pores with a diameter below 20 nm. Furthermore, we report on the dielectric fingerprint of the rotator phase and the molecular dynamics in bulk 1-dodecanol.
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- Antonela Ananiadou
- Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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- Institut für Chemie neuer Materialien, Universität Osnabrück, D-49069 Osnabrück, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, P.O. Box 1186, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece.,University Research Center of Ioannina (URCI) - Institute of Materials Science and Computing, 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
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Sun Y, Yu F, Li C, Dai X, Ma J. Nano-/Micro-confined Water in Graphene Hydrogel as Superadsorbents for Water Purification. NANO-MICRO LETTERS 2019; 12:2. [PMID: 34138060 PMCID: PMC7770964 DOI: 10.1007/s40820-019-0336-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Accepted: 11/11/2019] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Confined water has been proven to be of great importance due to its pervasiveness and contribution to life and many fields of scientific research. However, the control and characterization of confined water are a challenge. Herein, a confined space is constructed by flexibly changing the pH of a graphene oxide dispersion under the self-assembly process of a graphene hydrogel (GH), and the confined space is adjusted with variation from 10.04 to 3.52 nm. Confined water content in GH increases when the pore diameter of the confined space decreases; the corresponding adsorption capacity increases from 243.04 to 442.91 mg g-1. Moreover, attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy are utilized to analyze the hydrogen bonding structure qualitatively and quantitatively, and correlation analysis reveals that the improvement in the adsorption capacity is caused by incomplete hydrogen bonding in the confined water. Further, confined water is assembled into four typical porous commercial adsorbents, and a remarkable enhancement of the adsorption capacity is achieved. This research demonstrates the application potential for the extraordinary properties of confined water and has implications for the development of highly effective confined water-modified adsorbents.
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- Yiran Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- College of Marine Ecology and Environment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, 44325, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
- Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China.
- Research Center for Environmental Functional Materials, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China.
- Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China.
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Tu CH, Steinhart M, Butt HJ, Floudas G. In Situ Monitoring of the Imbibition of Poly(n-butyl methacrylates) in Nanoporous Alumina by Dielectric Spectroscopy. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Chien-Hua Tu
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie neuer Materialien, Universität Osnabrück, D-49069 Osnabrück, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, D-55128 Mainz, Germany
- Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
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Kripotou S, Zafeiris K, Culebras-Martínez M, Gallego Ferrer G, Kyritsis A. Dynamics of hydration water in gelatin and hyaluronic acid hydrogels. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2019; 42:109. [PMID: 31444585 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2019-11871-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2019] [Accepted: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We employed broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS), for the investigation of the water dynamics in partially hydrated hyaluronic acid (HA), and gelatin (Gel), enzymatically crosslinked hydrogels, in the water fraction ranges [Formula: see text]. Our results indicate that at low hydrations ([Formula: see text]), where the dielectric response of the hydrogels is identical during cooling and heating, water plasticizes strongly the polymeric matrix and is organized in clusters giving rise to [Formula: see text]-process, secondary water relaxation and to an additional slower relaxation process. This later process has been found to be related with the dc charge conductivity and can be described in terms of the conduction current relaxation mechanism. At slightly higher hydrations, however, always below the hydration level where ice is formed during cooling, we have recorded in HA hydrogel a strong water dielectric relaxation process, [Formula: see text], which has Arrhenius-like temperature dependence and large time scale resembling relaxation processes recorded in bulk low density amorphous solid water structures. This relaxation process shows a strong-to-fragile transition at [Formula: see text]C and our data suggest that the VTF-like process recorded at [Formula: see text]C is controlled by the same molecular process like long range charge transport. In addition, our data imply that the crossover temperature is related with the onset of structural rearrangements (increase in configurational entropy) of the macromolecules. In partially crystallized hydrogels ([Formula: see text]) HA exhibits at low temperatures the ice dielectric process consistent with the bulk hexagonal ice, whereas Gel hydrogel exhibits as main low temperature process a slow relaxation process that refers to open tetrahedral structures of water similar to low density amorphous ice structures and to bulk cubic ice. Regarding the water secondary relaxation processes, we have shown that the [Formula: see text]-process and the [Formula: see text] process are activated in water hydrogen bond networks with different structures.
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- Sotiria Kripotou
- National Technical University of Athens, Physics Department, Iroon Polytechneiou 9, Zografou Campus, 15780, Athens, Greece
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- National Technical University of Athens, Physics Department, Iroon Polytechneiou 9, Zografou Campus, 15780, Athens, Greece
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- Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (CBIT), Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain
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- Centre for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (CBIT), Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain
- Biomedical Research Networking Centre in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Valencia, Spain
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- National Technical University of Athens, Physics Department, Iroon Polytechneiou 9, Zografou Campus, 15780, Athens, Greece.
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Yao Y, Fella V, Huang W, Zhang KAI, Landfester K, Butt HJ, Vogel M, Floudas G. Crystallization and Dynamics of Water Confined in Model Mesoporous Silica Particles: Two Ice Nuclei and Two Fractions of Water. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:5890-5901. [PMID: 30946592 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The crystallization and dynamics of water confined in model mesoporous silica particles (pore diameters ranging from 2.1 to 5 nm; pore length ≈ 1 μm) are studied in homogeneous aqueous suspensions by dielectric spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques. We establish the phase diagram ( T vs 1/ d) of confined water covering a broad range of pore diameters. A linear dependence of the heterogeneous and the homogeneous nucleation temperatures on the inverse pore diameter is shown. The two lines converge at a pore diameter of ∼2.6 nm, below which formation of stable crystals is suppressed. By combining dielectric spectroscopy and different NMR techniques, we determine the dynamics of water within mesoporous silica over broad temperature and frequency ranges. Both techniques identify two dynamically distinguishable fractions of confined water coexisting within the pores. We attribute the two fractions to an interfacial water layer at the pore walls and confined water in the pore interior. Two alternative scenarios are proposed to rationalize the coexistence of two dynamically distinguishable water fractions. In the first scenario, two liquid fractions of water coexist under extreme confinement conditions for a range of temperatures; we discuss similarities with the two ultraviscous liquids (high-density liquid and low-density liquid) put forward for supercooled bulk water. In the second scenario, a liquid and a solid phase coexist; we conjecture that highly distorted and unstable crystal nuclei exist under extreme confinement that exhibit reorientation dynamics with time scales intermediate to the surrounding confined liquid and to bulk ice.
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- Yang Yao
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research , D-55128 Mainz , Germany
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- Institut für Festkörperphysik , Technische Universität Darmstadt , Hochschulstraße 6 , 64289 Darmstadt , Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research , D-55128 Mainz , Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research , D-55128 Mainz , Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research , D-55128 Mainz , Germany
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- Institut für Festkörperphysik , Technische Universität Darmstadt , Hochschulstraße 6 , 64289 Darmstadt , Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research , D-55128 Mainz , Germany
- Department of Physics , University of Ioannina , P.O. Box 1186, 451 10 Ioannina , Greece
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Li X, Charaya H, Bernard GM, Elliott JAW, Michaelis VK, Lee B, Chung HJ. Low-Temperature Ionic Conductivity Enhanced by Disrupted Ice Formation in Polyampholyte Hydrogels. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Xinda Li
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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Adrjanowicz K, Szklarz G, Koperwas K, Paluch M. Comparison of high pressure and nanoscale confinement effects on crystallization of the molecular glass-forming liquid, dimethyl phthalate. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:14366-14375. [PMID: 28540942 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp01864a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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High pressure and nanoscopic confinement are two different strategies commonly employed to modify the physicochemical properties of various materials. Both strategies act mostly by changing the molecular packing. In this work, we performed a comparative study on the effect of compression and confined geometry on crystallization of a molecular liquid. Dielectric spectroscopy was employed to investigate the crystallization of the van der Waals liquid, dimethyl phthalate, in nanoporous alumina of different pore sizes as well as on increased pressure (up to 200 MPa). The analysis of the crystallization kinetics under varying thermodynamic conditions revealed that both strategies affect the crystallization behavior of the sample in very distinct ways. Compression shifts the maximum crystallization rate towards a higher temperature and broadens it. As a result, it is more challenging to avoid crystallization upon cooling the liquid at high pressure. In contrast, when the same material is incorporated into nanopores, crystallization significantly slows down and the maximum rate shifts towards a lower temperature with decreasing pore size. Finally, we show that crystallization in nanoporous alumina is accompanied by pre-crystallization effects upon which a shift of the α-relaxation peak is observed. An equilibration process prior to the initiation of crystallization was detected for the confined material both above and below the glass transition temperature of the interfacial layer, while not in the bulk.
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- K Adrjanowicz
- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, ulica Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland.
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Khamzin AA, Nasybullin AI. Trap-controlled proton hopping: interpretation of low-temperature dielectric relaxation of ice Ih. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:23142-23150. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp03468k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A microscopic model of the dielectric relaxation of ice at low temperatures is proposed.
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Zhang C, Sha Y, Zhang Y, Cai T, Li L, Zhou D, Wang X, Xue G. Nanostructures and Dynamics of Isochorically Confined Amorphous Drug Mediated by Cooling Rate, Interfacial, and Intermolecular Interactions. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:10704-10716. [PMID: 29111765 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b08545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The production and stabilization of amorphous drugs by the nanoconfinement effect has recently become a research hotspot in pharmaceutical sciences. Herein, two guest/host systems, indomethacin (IMC) and griseofulvin (GSF) confined in anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) templates with different pore diameters (25-250 nm) are investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS). The crystallization of the confined drugs is suppressed, and their glass transition temperatures show an evident pore-size dependency. Moreover, a combination of dielectric and calorimetric results demonstrates that the significant change in the temperature dependence of the structural relaxation time during the cooling process is attributed to the vitrification of the interfacial molecules and the local density heterogeneity under isochoric confinement. Interestingly, compared with the case of IMC/AAO, which can be described by a typical two-layer model, GSF/AAO presents an rare scenario of three glass transition temperatures under fast cooling (40-10 K/min), indicating that there exists a thermodynamic nonequilibrium interlayer between the bulk-like core and interfacial layer. In contrast, the slow cooling process (0.5 K/min) would lead confined GSF into the stable core-shell nanostructure. Using surface modification, the interfacial effect is confirmed to be an important reason for the different phenomena between these two guest/host systems, and intermolecular hydrogen bonding is also suggested to be emphasized considering the long-range effect of interfacial interactions. Our results not only provide insight into the glass transition behavior of geometrically confined supercooled liquids, but also offer a means of adjusting and stabilizing the nanostructure of amorphous drugs under two-dimensional confinement.
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- Chen Zhang
- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drug Discovery for Metabolic Diseases, and Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University , Nanjing 210009, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University , Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
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Souli MP, Klonos P, Fragopoulou AF, Mavragani IV, Pateras IS, Kostomitsopoulos N, Margaritis LH, Zoumpoulis P, Kaklamanis L, Kletsas D, Gorgoulis VG, Kyritsis A, Pissis P, Georgakilas AG. Applying Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS) for the Biophysical Characterization of Mammalian Tissues under a Variety of Cellular Stresses. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:ijms18040838. [PMID: 28420124 PMCID: PMC5412422 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18040838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Revised: 04/10/2017] [Accepted: 04/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The dielectric properties of biological tissues can contribute non-invasively to a better characterization and understanding of the structural properties and physiology of living organisms. The question we asked, is whether these induced changes are effected by an endogenous or exogenous cellular stress, and can they be detected non-invasively in the form of a dielectric response, e.g., an AC conductivity switch in the broadband frequency spectrum. This study constitutes the first methodological approach for the detection of environmental stress-induced damage in mammalian tissues by the means of broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) at the frequencies of 1-10⁶ Hz. Firstly, we used non-ionizing (NIR) and ionizing radiation (IR) as a typical environmental stress. Specifically, rats were exposed to either digital enhanced cordless telecommunication (DECT) radio frequency electromagnetic radiation or to γ-radiation, respectively. The other type of stress, characterized usually by high genomic instability, was the pathophysiological state of human cancer (lung and prostate). Analyzing the results of isothermal dielectric measurements provided information on the tissues' water fraction. In most cases, our methodology proved sufficient in detecting structural changes, especially in the case of IR and malignancy. Useful specific dielectric response patterns are detected and correlated with each type of stress. Our results point towards the development of a dielectric-based methodology for better understanding and, in a relatively invasive way, the biological and structural changes effected by radiation and developing lung or prostate cancer often associated with genomic instability.
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- Maria P Souli
- Physics Department, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 15780 Athens, Greece.
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- Physics Department, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 15780 Athens, Greece.
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- Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, 15701 Athens, Greece.
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- Physics Department, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 15780 Athens, Greece.
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- Molecular Carcinogenesis Group, Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
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- Laboratory Animal Facilities, Center of Clinical, Experimental Surgery and Translational Research, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Efesiou Street, 11527 Athens, Greece.
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- Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, 15701 Athens, Greece.
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- Diagnostic Echotomography Medical S.A., 317C Kifissias Avenue, 145 61 Kifissia, Greece.
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- Department of Pathology, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, 356 Sygrou Avenue, 17674 Kallithea, Greece.
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- Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Ageing, Institute of Biosciences and Applications, National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", 60037 Athens, Greece.
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- Molecular Carcinogenesis Group, Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
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- Physics Department, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 15780 Athens, Greece.
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- Physics Department, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 15780 Athens, Greece.
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- Physics Department, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 15780 Athens, Greece.
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Yao Y, Ruckdeschel P, Graf R, Butt HJ, Retsch M, Floudas G. Homogeneous Nucleation of Ice Confined in Hollow Silica Spheres. J Phys Chem B 2016; 121:306-313. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b11053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yang Yao
- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Physical
Chemistry 1 − Polymer Systems, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Physical
Chemistry 1 − Polymer Systems, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department
of Physics, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
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Suzuki Y, Steinhart M, Kappl M, Butt HJ, Floudas G. Effects of polydispersity, additives, impurities and surfaces on the crystallization of poly(ethylene oxide)(PEO) confined to nanoporous alumina. POLYMER 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2016.07.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Wiener CG, Tyagi M, Liu Y, Weiss RA, Vogt BD. Supramolecular Hydrophobic Aggregates in Hydrogels Partially Inhibit Ice Formation. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:5543-52. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b02863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Clinton G. Wiener
- Department
of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Center
for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Center
for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Department
of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department
of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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Knapik J, Wojnarowska Z, Grzybowska K, Jurkiewicz K, Stankiewicz A, Paluch M. Stabilization of the Amorphous Ezetimibe Drug by Confining Its Dimension. Mol Pharm 2016; 13:1308-16. [PMID: 26981876 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5b00903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of nanoconfinement on the molecular mobility, as well as on the physical stability, of amorphous ezetimibe drug. Two guest/host systems, ezetimibe-Aeroperl 300 and ezetimibe-Neusilin US2, were prepared and studied using various experimental techniques, such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS). Our investigation has shown that the molecular mobility of the examined anticholesterol agent incorporated into nanopore matrices strongly depends on the pore size of the host system. Moreover, it was found that the amorphous ezetimibe confined in 30 nm pores of Aeroperl 300 has a tendency to recrystallize, while the drug incorporated into the smaller--5 nm--pores of Neusilin US2 is not able to crystallize. It has been shown that this significant stabilization of ezetimibe drug can be achieved by an interplay of three factors: changes in molecular dynamics of the confined amorphous drug, the immobilization effect of pore walls on a part of ezetimibe molecules, and the use of host materials with pores that are smaller than the critical size of the drug crystal nuclei.
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- J Knapik
- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia , ul. Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland.,SMCEBI , ul. 75 Pułku Piechoty 1a, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia , ul. Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland.,SMCEBI , ul. 75 Pułku Piechoty 1a, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia , ul. Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland.,SMCEBI , ul. 75 Pułku Piechoty 1a, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia , ul. Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland.,SMCEBI , ul. 75 Pułku Piechoty 1a, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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- F1 Pharma sp. z o.o. , ul. Bobrzyńskiego 14, 30-348 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, University of Silesia , ul. Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland.,SMCEBI , ul. 75 Pułku Piechoty 1a, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland
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Kurzweil-Segev Y, Greenbaum (Gutina) A, Popov I, Golodnitsky D, Feldman Y. The role of the confined water in the dynamic crossover of hydrated lysozyme powders. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:10992-9. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp01084a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This work presents combined dielectric and calorimetric measurements of hydrated lysozyme powders with different levels of hydration in a broad temperature interval.
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- Y. Kurzweil-Segev
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Department of Applied Physics
- Jerusalem 91904
- Israel
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- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Department of Applied Physics
- Jerusalem 91904
- Israel
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- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Department of Applied Physics
- Jerusalem 91904
- Israel
- Institute of Physics
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- School of Chemistry
- Applied Materials Research Center
- Tel Aviv University
- Tel Aviv
- Israel
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- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Department of Applied Physics
- Jerusalem 91904
- Israel
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