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Ma Y, Hudson SD, Salipante PF, Douglas JF, Prabhu VM. Applicability of the Generalized Stokes-Einstein Equation of Mode-Coupling Theory to Near-Critical Polyelectrolyte Complex Solutions. ACS Macro Lett 2023; 12:288-294. [PMID: 36762915 PMCID: PMC10015504 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.2c00647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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We examine whether the mode-coupling theory of Kawasaki and Ferrell (KF) [Kawasaki, K. Kinetic Equations and Time Correlation Functions of Critical Fluctuations. Ann. Phys. 1970, 61 (1), 1-56; Ferrell, R. A. Decoupled-Mode Dynamical Scaling Theory of the Binary-Liquid Phase Transition. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1970, 24 (21), 1169-1172] can describe dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements of the dynamic structure factor of near-critical polyelectrolyte complex (PC) solutions that have been previously shown to exhibit a theoretically unanticipated lower critical solution temperature type phase behavior, i.e., phase separation upon heating, and a conventional pattern of static critical properties (low angle scattering intensity and static correlation, ξs) as a function of reduced temperature. Good qualitative accord is observed between our DLS measurements and the KF theory. In particular, we observe that the collective diffusion coefficient Dc of the PC solutions obeys the generalized Stokes-Einstein equation (GSE), Dc = kBT/6πηξs, where ξs is specified from our previous measurements and where η is measured by capillary rheometry under the same thermodynamic conditions as in our previous study of these solutions, allowing for a no-free-parameter test of the GSE. We also find that even the wavevector (q)-dependent collective diffusion coefficient Dc(q), measured by varying the scattering angle in the DLS measurements over a large range, is also well-described by the mean-field version of the KF theory. We find it remarkable that the KF theory provides such a robust description of collective diffusion in these complex charged polyelectrolyte blends under near-critical conditions given that charge fluctuations and association of the polymers might be expected to lead to physical complications that would invalidate the standard model of uncharged fluid mixtures.
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- Yuanchi Ma
- Materials Science and Engineering Division, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Materials Science and Engineering Division, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Materials Science and Engineering Division, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Materials Science and Engineering Division, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Materials Science and Engineering Division, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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Egamberdiev K, Mirzaev SZ, Kaatze U. The Effect of Alkali Halides on the Critical Exponents of the 2,6-Dimethylpyridine-Water System. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:12379-12389. [PMID: 27934229 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b10329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The diffusion coefficients and shear viscosities of 2,6-dimethylpyridine-water mixtures of critical composition have been measured without and with small amounts of alkali halides added. The data have been analyzed in terms of power law behavior. Deviations from power law behavior indicate a coupling between the critical fluctuations in the local concentrations and the formation of mesoscopic molecular aggregates. The critical exponent of the fluctuation correlation length, the shear viscosity exponent, and the critical exponent of the relaxation rate of fluctuations have been evaluated to show noticeable influences from the salts. The correlation length exponent indicates a suppression of the critical fluctuations, whereas the viscosity exponent rather points at the activation of some extra fluctuations. No clear evidence has been obtained that the added salts affect the critical behavior, and thus cause the opposed effects in the exponents, directly by the long-range ionic fields. Alternatively, the ions may have an influence on the aggregate formation which in turn could modify the critical fluctuations either by reducing the region of true critical exponents or by affecting the critical behavior due to the presence as well as the formation and disintegration kinetics of the multimolecular structures.
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- Kamoladdin Egamberdiev
- Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.,Department of Engineering Physics, Tashkent State Technical University , Do'rmon Yuli 33, 100125 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.,Department of Engineering Physics, Tashkent State Technical University , Do'rmon Yuli 33, 100125 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Patsahan O. Gas-liquid phase coexistence and crossover behavior of binary ionic fluids with screened Coulomb interactions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:062143. [PMID: 25019760 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.062143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We study the effects of an interaction range on the gas-liquid phase diagram and the crossover behavior of a simple model of ionic fluids: an equimolar binary mixture of equisized hard spheres interacting through screened Coulomb potentials which are repulsive between particles of the same species and attractive between particles of different species. Using the collective variables theory, we find explicit expressions for the relevant coefficients of the effective φ{4} Ginzburg-Landau Hamiltonian in a one-loop approximation. Within the framework of this approximation, we calculate the critical parameters and gas-liquid phase diagrams for varying inverse screening length z. Both the critical temperature scaled by the Yukawa potential contact value and the critical density rapidly decrease with an increase of the interaction range (a decrease of z) and then for z<0.05 they slowly approach the values found for a restricted primitive model (RPM). We find that gas-liquid coexistence region reduces with an increase of z and completely vanishes at z≃2.78. Our results clearly show that an increase in the interaction range leads to a decrease of the crossover temperature. For z≃0.01, the crossover temperature is the same as for the RPM.
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- O Patsahan
- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1 Svientsitskii Street, 79011 Lviv, Ukraine
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Patsahan O. Ginzburg criterion for ionic fluids: the effect of Coulomb interactions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:022102. [PMID: 24032770 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.022102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The effect of the Coulomb interactions on the crossover between mean-field and Ising critical behavior in ionic fluids is studied using the Ginzburg criterion. We consider the charge-asymmetric primitive model supplemented by short-range attractive interactions in the vicinity of the gas-liquid critical point. The model without Coulomb interactions exhibiting typical Ising critical behavior is used to calibrate the Ginzburg temperature of the systems comprising electrostatic interactions. Using the collective variables method, we derive a microscopic-based effective Hamiltonian for the full model. We obtain explicit expressions for all the relevant Hamiltonian coefficients within the framework of the same approximation, i.e., the one-loop approximation. Then we consistently calculate the reduced Ginzburg temperature t(G) for both the purely Coulombic model (a restricted primitive model) and the purely nonionic model (a hard-sphere square-well model) as well as for the model parameters ranging between these two limiting cases. Contrary to the previous theoretical estimates, we obtain the reduced Ginzburg temperature for the purely Coulombic model to be about 20 times smaller than for the nonionic model. For the full model including both short-range and long-range interactions, we show that t(G) approaches the value found for the purely Coulombic model when the strength of the Coulomb interactions becomes sufficiently large. Our results suggest a key role of Coulomb interactions in the crossover behavior observed experimentally in ionic fluids as well as confirm the Ising-like criticality in the Coulomb-dominated ionic systems.
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- O Patsahan
- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1 Svientsitskii Str., 79011 Lviv, Ukraine
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Bakaeva Z, Černoch P, Štěpánek P, Nallet F, Noirez L. Critical behavior of nanoparticle-containing binary liquid mixtures. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:5831-5. [PMID: 23487028 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp44052d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Simultaneous measurements of small-angle neutron scattering and dynamic light scattering have been performed on a binary mixture of partially miscible liquids, 2,6-dimethylpyridine and water. At critical composition the temperature dependence of the correlation length of fluctuations in composition is strongly affected by the addition of nanoparticles of a triblock copolymer polyethylene oxide-polypropylene oxide-polyethylene oxide. A crossover between Ising-type critical behavior and mean-field critical behavior is observed when the correlation length is equal to the size of the nanoparticles.
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- Z Bakaeva
- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Heyrovsky Sq. 2, 16206 Prague, Czech Republic.
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Du Z, Mao S, Chen Z, Shen W. Kinetics of the Reaction of Crystal Violet with Hydroxide Ion in the Critical Solution of 2-Butoxyethanol + Water. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:283-90. [DOI: 10.1021/jp3111502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Zhongyu Du
- Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular
Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
- School of Chemistry and Molecular
Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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Critical Behavior of Binary Mixtures of Nitrobenzene + n-Undecane and Nitrobenzene + n-Dodecane. J SOLUTION CHEM 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s10953-012-9907-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Angst S, Hucht A, Wolf DE. Strongly anisotropic nonequilibrium phase transition in Ising models with friction. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 85:051120. [PMID: 23004716 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.051120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The nonequilibrium phase transition in driven two-dimensional Ising models with two different geometries is investigated using Monte Carlo methods as well as analytical calculations. The models show dissipation through fluctuation induced friction near the critical point. We first consider high driving velocities and demonstrate that both systems are in the same universality class and undergo a strongly anisotropic nonequilibrium phase transition, with anisotropy exponent θ=3. Within a field theoretical ansatz the simulation results are confirmed. The crossover from Ising to mean field behavior in dependency of system size and driving velocity is analyzed using crossover scaling. It turns out that for all finite velocities the phase transition becomes strongly anisotropic in the thermodynamic limit.
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- Sebastian Angst
- Fakultät für Physik und CeNIDE, Universität Duisburg-Essen, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany
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Méndez-Castro P, Troncoso J, Pérez-Sánchez G, Peleteiro J, Romaní L. Thermal properties of ionic systems near the liquid-liquid critical point. J Chem Phys 2011; 135:214507. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3663857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The measurements of coexistence curves and critical behavior of a binary mixture with a high molecular weight polymer. J Mol Liq 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2011.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Schröer W, Vale VR. Liquid-liquid phase separation in solutions of ionic liquids: phase diagrams, corresponding state analysis and comparison with simulations of the primitive model. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2009; 21:424119. [PMID: 21715854 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/42/424119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Phase diagrams of ionic solutions of the ionic liquid C(18)mim(+)NTF(2)(-) (1-n-octadecyl-3-methyl imidazolium bistrifluormethylsulfonylimide) in decalin, cyclohexane and methylcyclohexane are reported and compared with that of solutions of other imidazolium ionic liquids with the anions NTF(2)(-), Cl(-) and BF4(-) in arenes, CCl(4), alcohols and water. The phase diagrams are analysed presuming Ising criticality and taking into account the asymmetry of the phase diagrams. The resulting parameters are compared with simulation results for equal-sized charged hard spheres in a dielectric continuum, the restricted primitive model (RPM) and the primitive model (PM) that allows for ions of different size. In the RPM temperature scale the critical temperatures vary almost linearly with the dielectric permittivity of the solvent. The RPM critical temperatures of the solutions in non-polar solvents are very similar, somewhat below the RPM value. Correlations with the boiling temperatures of the solvents and a dependence on the length of the side chain of the imidazolium cations show that dispersion interactions modify the phase transition, which is mainly determined by Coulomb forces. Critical concentrations, widths of the phase diagrams and the slopes of the diameter are different for the solutions in protic and aprotic solvents. The phase diagrams of the solutions in alcohols and water get a lower critical solution point when represented in RPM variables.
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Cai HL, An XQ, Lü HH, Shen WG. Critical Behavior of {Water + AOT + Decane} Microemulsion with Small Molar Ratio of Water to AOT. J SOLUTION CHEM 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/s10953-009-9451-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The measurements of coexistence curves and light scattering for 2,6-dimethypyridine+H2O in the critical region. Chem Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2009.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Liquid–liquid phase transition in the ionic solutions of tetra-n-butylammonium chloride in o-xylene and ethylbenzene: Phase diagrams and corresponding state analysis. J Mol Liq 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2008.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Nockemann P, Binnemans K, Thijs B, Parac-Vogt TN, Merz K, Mudring AV, Menon PC, Rajesh RN, Cordoyiannis G, Thoen J, Leys J, Glorieux C. Temperature-Driven Mixing-Demixing Behavior of Binary Mixtures of the Ionic Liquid Choline Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide and Water. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:1429-37. [DOI: 10.1021/jp808993t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Peter Nockemann
- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, bus 2404, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Anorganische Chemie I - Festkörperchemie and Materialien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Laboratory for Acoustics and Thermal Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Pradeep UK. Critical behavior on approaching a special critical point in a complex fluid. J Chem Phys 2008; 129:204903. [PMID: 19045877 DOI: 10.1063/1.3013540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The critical behavior of osmotic susceptibility is investigated in the re-entrant complex mixture 1-propanol (P)+water (W)+potassium chloride (KCl) through light-scattering measurements. The measurements are performed on approaching a special critical point [i.e., the double critical point (DCP)] in this mixture, along the line of upper critical solution temperatures (T(U)'s), by varying t from the high temperature one-phase region. The light-scattering data analysis emphasizes the need for corrections to the asymptotic Ising behavior and yields very large magnitudes for the correction-to-scaling amplitudes A(1) and A(2), with the first-correction amplitude A(1) being negative, signifying a nonmonotonic crossover behavior of the susceptibility exponent in this mixture. For the T(U) closest to the DCP, the effective susceptibility exponent gamma(eff) displays a nonmonotonic crossover from its nearly doubled three dimensional (3D)-Ising value toward its nearly double mean-field value with an increase in t. While for that far away from the DCP, it displays a nonmonotonic crossover from its single-limit Ising value toward a value slightly lower than its mean-field value of 1 with an increase in t. This feature of the effective susceptibility exponent is interpreted in terms of the possibility of a nonmonotonic crossover to the mean-field value from lower values in the nonasymptotic high t region. The renormalized Ising regime extends over a larger t range for the sample (or T(U)) closest to the DCP when compared to that far away from it. The in-between T(U)'s display a trend toward shrinkage in the renormalized Ising regime as T(U) shifts away from the DCP. Nevertheless, the crossover to the mean-field behavior is completed only beyond t>10(-2) for the T(U)'s studied. The observed crossover behavior is attributed to the presence of strong ion-induced clustering in this mixture, as revealed by various structure probing techniques, while the observed unique trend in the crossover behavior is discussed in terms of the varying influence of the DCP on the critical behavior along the T(U) line. The crossover behavior for the T(U)'s is pronounced and more sharp compared to the T(L)'s (lower critical solution temperatures) [U. K. Pradeep, J. Chem. Phys. 129, 134506 (2008)] in this mixture, although there exists no difference in the growth of the mesoscale clusters in the lower and upper one-phase regions in this mixture. Our observations suggest the need to look at the crossover behavior probably from two perspectives, namely, the dielectric effect and the clustering effect. The effective susceptibility exponent as a function of the field variable t(UL), instead of the conventional variable t, displays a sharp nonmonotonic crossover from its asymptotic 3D-Ising value ( approximately 1.24) toward a value slightly lower than its nonasymptotic mean-field value of 1, as that observed in the t analysis for the T(U) far away from the influence of the DCP.
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- U K Pradeep
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
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Pradeep UK. Tendency toward crossover of the effective susceptibility exponent from its doubled Ising value to its doubled mean-field value near a double critical point. J Chem Phys 2008; 129:134506. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2987344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Wang J, Anisimov MA. Nature of vapor-liquid asymmetry in fluid criticality. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2007; 75:051107. [PMID: 17677022 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.75.051107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2007] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We have investigated the nature and experimental consequences of vapor-liquid asymmetry in near-critical fluids within the framework of "complete scaling" [M. E. Fisher and G. Orkoulas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 696 (2000); Y. C. Kim, Phys. Rev. E 67, 061506 (2003)]. We used the thermodynamic freedom for a choice of the critical-entropy value to simplify "complete scaling" to a form with only two independent parameters, responsible for two different sources of the asymmetry. We then developed a procedure to obtain these two parameters from mean-field equations of state. By combining accurate liquid-vapor coexistence and heat-capacity data, we have unambiguously separated two nonanalytic contributions from the two sources of vapor-liquid asymmetry and proved the validity of "complete scaling." Since the nonanalytic asymmetry effects in the critical region are fully determined by the Ising critical exponents for the symmetric lattice-gas model, there is no need for a special renormalization-group theoretical treatment of "non-Ising" asymmetry in fluid criticality.
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- Jingtao Wang
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Balevicius V, Balevicius VJ, Aidas K, Fuess H. Determination of Critical Indices by “Slow” Spectroscopy: NMR Shifts by Statistical Thermodynamics and Density Functional Theory Calculations. J Phys Chem B 2007; 111:2523-32. [PMID: 17309288 DOI: 10.1021/jp065477x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The temperature dependencies of NMR shifts in the critical region of two coexisting phases have been simulated using statistical thermodynamics and graph-theory consideration of equilibrium processes of molecular association. Microparameters of magnetic screening of various water and water/pyridine structures used in the statistical averaging have been evaluated by density functional theory calculations (PBE1PBE and B3PW91 functionals in the 6-311++G** basis set). The gauge-including atomic orbital (GIAO) approach has been applied to ensure gauge invariance of the results. Solvent effects were taken into account by a polarized continuum model (PCM). NMR shifts "order parameters" (Deltadelta = |delta+ - delta-|) and "diameters" (phidelta = |(delta+ + delta-)/2 - deltaC|, where delta+, delta-, and deltaC are the chemical shifts of coexisting phases and at the critical point respectively) have been calculated in each case close to the lower critical solution point (TL) and processed using linear regression analysis of Deltadelta approximately |T - TL| and phidelta approximately |T - TL| in the log-log plot. It has been shown that the critical index beta can be evaluated with high precision from the slope of Deltadelta = f(T - TL) at any realistic set of model input parameters. The slope of diameter has been found to depend on both input beta and alpha values. The obtained phidelta slopes (0.58-0.63) are very close to 2beta values. The results are discussed within the concept of complete scaling. Results of simulation are compared and supported by experimental NMR data for water/2,6-lutidine, acetic anhydride/n-heptane, and acetic anhydride/cyclohexane systems.
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Gutkowski KI, Bianchi HL, Japas ML. Nonasymptotic Critical Behavior of a Ternary Ionic System. J Phys Chem B 2007; 111:2554-64. [PMID: 17302450 DOI: 10.1021/jp067069z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Refractive indices n and salt concentrations ms of coexisting phases of the ternary system 1,4-dioxane + water + potassium chloride were measured along the liquid-liquid-solid coexistence curve near the liquid-liquid critical end point. Refractive index measurements were carried out in the range 0.689 x 10-3 < t = (T - Tc)/Tc < 0.118 while salt concentrations were determined for the temperature range 1.84 x 10-3 < t < 8.07 x 10-2. From these experimental results, compositions fD (mass fraction of dioxane on a salt-free basis) and densities rho of coexisting phases were obtained. The shape of the coexistence curve was analyzed using alternatively n, ms, fD, and rho as order parameters. In all cases, the obtained coexistence curve displays, asymptotically, Ising behavior. Outside the asymptotic critical domain, n, ms, and rho show significant deviations of the effective critical exponent from its Ising value, while the concentration variable fD requires no corrections to simple scaling. On the basis of the present results, we conclude that this system shows no indication of multicritical behavior.
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- Karin I Gutkowski
- Unidad de Actividad Química, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Av. del Libertador 8250, 1429 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Schröer W, Wagner M, Stanga O. Apparent mean-field criticality of liquid–liquid phase transitions in ionic solutions. J Mol Liq 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2006.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Bagchi D, Kumar A, Menon R. Ion-induced multiply reentrant liquid-liquid transitions and the nature of criticality in ethanol-water mixture. J Chem Phys 2006; 125:34511. [PMID: 16863366 DOI: 10.1063/1.2212941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We report a quite unusual feature of four liquid-liquid reentrant transitions in ethanol (E)+water (W)+ammonium sulfate mixture by meticulous tuning of the ammonium sulfate concentration in a narrow range, as a function of temperature, at atmospheric pressure. Detailed exploration of the intricate phase behavior in terms of E/W sections shows that the range of triple reentrance shrinks with increasing E/W. The behavior of osmotic susceptibility is investigated by light scattering, near the critical point, in the one-phase region by varying the temperature at fixed concentration of the components, in a particular E/W section. The critical exponent of susceptibility (gamma) and correlation length (nu) are observed to have Fisher renormalized Ising values [Phys. Rev. 176, 237 (1968)], with gamma(r)=1.41 and nu(r)=0.718. The effective susceptibility exponent, gamma(eff), exhibits a sharp, nonmonotonic crossover from Ising to mean-field critical behavior, which is completed outside the critical regime. The amplitude of the correlation length, xi(o)(=21.2+/-0.4 A), deduced from light scattering experiment, is an order of magnitude larger than the typical values in usual aqueous electrolyte systems. This value of xi(o) is further verified from small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) experiments and found to be consistent. SAXS experiments on the critical sample reveal the presence of long-ranged intermolecular correlations, leading to supramolecular structuring, at a temperature far away from the critical point. These results convincingly demonstrate that the finite length scale arising due to the structuring competes with the diverging correlation length of critical concentration fluctuations, which influences the nonasymptotic critical behavior in this aqueous electrolyte system. The sulphate ions play a dominant role in both structuring and the complex phase behavior.
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- Debjani Bagchi
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India.
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Rah K, Freed KF, Dudowicz J, Douglas JF. Lattice model of equilibrium polymerization. V. Scattering properties and the width of the critical regime for phase separation. J Chem Phys 2006; 124:144906. [PMID: 16626244 DOI: 10.1063/1.2181138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Dynamic clustering associated with self-assembly in many complex fluids can qualitatively alter the shape of phase boundaries and produce large changes in the scale of critical fluctuations that are difficult to comprehend within the existing framework of theories of critical phenomena for nonassociating fluids. In order to elucidate the scattering and critical properties of associating fluids, we consider several models of equilibrium polymerization that describe widely occurring types of associating fluids at equilibrium and that exhibit the well defined cluster geometry of linear polymer chains. Specifically, a Flory-Huggins-type lattice theory is used, in conjunction with the random phase approximation, to compute the correlation length amplitude xi(o) and the Ginzburg number Gi corresponding, respectively, to the scale of composition fluctuations and to a parameter characterizing the temperature range over which Ising critical behavior is exhibited. Our calculations indicate that upon increasing the interparticle association energy, the polymer chains become increasingly long in the vicinity of the critical point, leading naturally to a more asymmetric phase boundary. This increase in the average degree of polymerization implies, in turn, a larger xi(o) and a drastically reduced width of the critical region (as measured by Gi). We thus obtain insight into the common appearance of asymmetric phase boundaries in a wide range of "complex" fluids and into the observation of apparent mean field critical behavior even rather close to the critical point.
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- Kyunil Rah
- The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Balevicius V, Gdaniec Z, Fuess H. NMR probing of structural peculiarities in ionic solutions close to critical point. J Chem Phys 2005; 123:224503. [PMID: 16375485 DOI: 10.1063/1.1989312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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(1)H, (23)Na, (35)Cl, (79)Br, and (81)Br NMR chemical shifts (delta) and signal half widths (Delta(12)) have been measured in aqueous electrolyte mixtures [tetrahydrofuran/H(2)ONaCl and 3-methylpyridine (3MP)H(2)ONaBr] at different mass fractions of salt (X) in the one-phase region, close to their lower critical solution points (T(CL)). Discontinuous changes in slope of delta=f(X) and Delta(12)=f(X) have been found in (23)Na and (81)Br NMR spectra of 3MP/water/NaBr solution at X approximately 0.1 and T=301 K. The dependency of (1)H NMR signals of 3MP is continuous over the whole investigated range of X=0.002-0.2, whereas changes in the slope of H(2)O chemical shifts are hardly noticeable. In the two-phase region, i.e., at T>T(CL), a doubling of all NMR signals has been observed. The sensitivity of NMR parameters depends more on composition of solution for anions (Cl(-) and Br(-)) than for cations (Na(+)). A very strong relaxation effect for (81)Br nuclei with relaxation rates reaching 14 000 s(-1) was observed. The results are interpreted in terms of ion-molecular clustering and changes in coherency of dipole configurations of water molecules during supramolecular restructuring of solutions.
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- Vytautas Balevicius
- Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Sauletekio al. 9-3, bld.3, LT-10222 Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Anisimov MA, Kostko AF, Sengers JV, Yudin IK. Competition of mesoscales and crossover to theta-point tricriticality in near-critical polymer solutions. J Chem Phys 2005; 123:164901. [PMID: 16268722 DOI: 10.1063/1.2056543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The approach to asymptotic critical behavior in polymer solutions is governed by a competition between the correlation length of critical fluctuations diverging at the critical point of phase separation and an additional mesoscopic length scale, the radius of gyration. In this paper we present a theory for crossover between two universal regimes: a regime with Ising (fluctuation-induced) asymptotic critical behavior, where the correlation length prevails, and a mean-field tricritical regime with theta-point behavior controlled by the mesoscopic polymer chain. The theory yields a universal scaled description of existing experimental phase-equilibria data and is in excellent agreement with our light-scattering experiments on polystyrene solutions in cyclohexane with polymer molecular weights ranging from 2 x 10(5) up to 11.4 x 10(6). The experiments demonstrate unambiguously that crossover to theta-point tricriticality is controlled by a competition of the two mesoscales. The critical amplitudes deduced from our experiments depend on the polymer molecular weight as predicted by de Gennes [Phys. Lett. 26A, 313 (1968)]. Experimental evidence for the presence of logarithmic corrections to mean-field tricritical theta-point behavior in the molecular-weight dependence of the critical parameters is also presented.
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- M A Anisimov
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
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Aqua JN, Banerjee S, Fisher ME. Criticality in charge-asymmetric hard-sphere ionic fluids. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2005; 72:041501. [PMID: 16383379 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.72.041501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Phase separation and criticality are analyzed in z:1 charge-asymmetric ionic fluids of equisized hard spheres by generalizing the Debye-Hückel approach combined with ionic association, cluster solvation by charged ions, and hard-core interactions, following lines developed by Fisher and Levin for the 1:1 case (i.e., the restricted primitive model). Explicit analytical calculations for 2:1 and 3:1 systems account for ionic association into dimers, trimers, and tetramers and subsequent multipolar cluster solvation. The reduced critical temperatures, Tc* (normalized by z), decrease with charge asymmetry, while the critical densities increase rapidly with . The results compare favorably with simulations and represent a distinct improvement over all current theories such as the mean spherical approximation, symmetric Poisson-Boltzmann theory, etc. For z not equal to 1, the interphase Galvani (or absolute electrostatic) potential difference, Deltaphi(T), between coexisting liquid and vapor phases is calculated and found to vanish as absolute value (T-Tc) beta when T-->Tc-with, since our approximations are classical, beta = (1/2). Above Tc, the compressibility maxima and so-called k-inflection loci (which aid the fast and accurate determination of the critical parameters) are found to exhibit a strong z dependence.
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- Jean-Noël Aqua
- Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 USA
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Hernández MP, Monroy F, Ortega F, Rubio RG. Collective and self-diffusion coefficients in an ionic critical mixture: 3-methylpyridine+water+NaBr. J Chem Phys 2005; 122:104501. [PMID: 15836326 DOI: 10.1063/1.1856455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The dynamics of concentration fluctuations of three critical samples of the 3-methylpyridine (3MP)+water+NaBr system have been measured by photon correlation spectroscopy. The collective-diffusion coefficient D shows the usual Ising behavior near the critical temperature T(c). However, as |T-T(c)| increases, the dynamic correlation length calculated from D, xi, takes values higher than the correlation length of the critical fluctuations calculated from static light scattering, xi(s). At the largest |T-T(c)| measured, xi approaches the value, xi(0,d) approximately equal to 1.13 nm, while the amplitude of xi(s) is xi(0,s)=0.38 nm. Pulsed-gradient NMR spectroscopy points out the existence of two dynamic contributions. One of them is consistent with the existence of molecular entities of hydrodynamic radius 0.31 nm, while the other one indicates the existence of aggregates rich in 3MP of radius 1.16 nm. The existence of the aggregates may explain the apparent anomalous behavior of the dynamic light scattering experiments for this system far from the critical point.
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- María-Paula Hernández
- Departamento de Química Física I, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense, 28040-Madrid, Spain
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Balevicius V, Aidas K, Tamuliene J, Fuess H. 1H NMR and DFT study of proton exchange in heterogeneous structures of pyridine-N-oxide/HCl/DCl/H2O. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2005; 61:835-839. [PMID: 15683786 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2004.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2004] [Accepted: 06/05/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Moderately narrow 1H NMR signals were observed in the solid-phase obtained from pyridine-N-oxide (PyO)...HCl solutions in acetonitrile/H2O after heterogeneous phase separation. High-resolution 1H NMR spectra are compared with those of crystalline PyO...HCl and PyO...DCl. It is concluded that partially resolved peaks in 1H NMR spectra of solids are related with heterogeneity of the spin system and the presence of different mobile H-bond clusters containing PyO, HCl, DCl and water molecules. Some part of non-bonded water or HCl molecules is captured in the cavities of crystalline samples. The attribution of the 1H NMR signals was based on the density functional theory calculation of proton magnetic screening tensor of the most expected H-bond structures in the 6-311G** basis taking into account the solvent effect by the polarized continuum model.
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- Vytautas Balevicius
- Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Sauletekio 9, LT-10222 Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Kostko AF, Anisimov MA, Sengers JV. Criticality in aqueous solutions of 3-methylpyridine and sodium bromide. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2004; 70:026118. [PMID: 15447556 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.70.026118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2004] [Revised: 05/19/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We address a controversial issue regarding the nature of critical behavior in ternary electrolyte solutions of water, 3-methylpyridine, and sodium bromide. Earlier light-scattering studies showed an anomalous critical behavior in this system that was attributed to the formation of a microheterogeneous phase associated with ion-molecule clustering [M.A. Anisimov, J. Jacob, A. Kumar, V.A. Agayan, and J. V. Sengers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2336 (2000)]], while some other investigators subsequently found this system to exhibit ordinary Ising-like critical behavior. This contradiction forced us to revisit the problem and perform an accurate and comprehensive study of light scattering in this system paying attention to the achievement of thermodynamic equilibrium, hysteresis effects, aging, and prehistory of the samples, and a possible role of impurities. We show that properly aged, equilibrium samples of aqueous solutions of 3-methylpyridine with NaBr exhibit universal Ising-like critical behavior, typical for other aqueous solutions. No evidence for an equilibrium microheterogeneous phase was found. We have been able to reproduce anomalous behavior (similar to that reported initially) in a fast run on a freshly prepared sample. We attribute the observed anomalies to mesoscopic nonequilibrium aggregates, possibly associated with supramolecular restructuring in aqueous solutions. To support this conclusion we performed a study of aqueous solutions of 3-methylpyridine without NaBr and have found long-living nonequilibrium states in aqueous solutions of 3-methylpyridine.
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- A F Kostko
- Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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Kudlay A, Ermoshkin AV, de la Cruz MO. Phase diagram of charged dumbbells: a random phase approximation approach. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2004; 70:021504. [PMID: 15447493 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.70.021504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The phase diagram of the charged hard dumbbell system (hard spheres of opposite unit charge fixed at contact) is obtained with the use of the random phase approximation (RPA). The effect of the impenetrability of charged spheres on charge-charge fluctuations is described by introduction of a modified electrostatic potential. The correlations of ions in a pair are included via a correlation function in the RPA. The coexistence curve is in good agreement with Monte Carlo simulations. The relevance of the theory to the restricted primitive model is discussed.
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- Alexander Kudlay
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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Caballero JB, Puertas AM, Fernández-Barbero A, de las Nieves FJ. Oppositely charged colloidal binary mixtures: A colloidal analog of the restricted primitive model. J Chem Phys 2004; 121:2428-35. [PMID: 15260798 DOI: 10.1063/1.1767995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The equilibrium phase diagram of a colloidal system composed of 1:1 mixture of positive and negative particles with equal charge is studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The system is the colloidal analog of the restricted primitive model (RPM) for ionic fluids. A liquid-gas transition is found in the low-temperature-low-density region, similar to the liquid-gas transition in the RPM. The fluid-crystal transition is also studied, and the liquid phase is shown to be stable in a narrow range of temperatures. In the liquid, the pair distribution function shows alternating layers of particles with opposite sign of charge surrounding every particle. In the vapor phase, clusters of particles are observed, again in agreement with the RPM. However, a decreasing distribution of clusters is obtained, instead of the discrimination between charged and neutral clusters found in the RPM.
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- José B Caballero
- Group of Complex Fluids Physics, Department of Applied Physics, University of Almeria, 04120, Spain
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Wagner M, Stanga O, Schröer W. The liquid–liquid coexistence of binary mixtures of the room temperature ionic liquid 1-methyl-3-hexylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate with alcohols. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2004. [DOI: 10.1039/b404933k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Wagner M, Stanga O, Schröer W. Critical viscosity near the liquid–liquid phase transition in the solution of the ionic liquid 1-methyl-3-hexylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate in 1-pentanol. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2004. [DOI: 10.1039/b315616h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Daub CD, Patey GN, Camp PJ. Liquid–vapor criticality in a fluid of charged hard dumbbells. J Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1609192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Jiménez-Ángeles F, Messina R, Holm C, Lozada-Cassou M. Ion pairing in model electrolytes: A study via three-particle correlation functions. J Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1596912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Hernández MP, Ortega F, Rubio RG. Crossover critical phenomena in an aqueous electrolyte solution: Light scattering, density and viscosity of the 3-methylpyridine+water+NaBr system. J Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1594179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Schröder JM, Becker A, Wiegand S. Suppression of multiple scattering for the critical mixture polystyrene/cyclohexane: Application of the one-beam cross correlation technique. J Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1574799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Gutkowski KI, Bianchi HL, Japas ML. Critical behavior of a ternary ionic system: A controversy. J Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1536611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Wagner M, Stanga O, Schröer W. Corresponding states analysis of the critical points in binary solutions of room temperature ionic liquids. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1039/b305959f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Romero-Enrique JM, Rull LF, Panagiotopoulos AZ. Dipolar origin of the gas-liquid coexistence of the hard-core 1:1 electrolyte model. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2002; 66:041204. [PMID: 12443188 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.66.041204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2002] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We present a systematic study of the effect of the ion pairing on the gas-liquid phase transition of hard-core 1:1 electrolyte models. We study a class of dipolar dimer models that depend on a parameter R(c), the maximum separation between the ions that compose the dimer. This parameter can vary from sigma(+/-) that corresponds to the tightly tethered dipolar dimer model to R(c)--> infinity that corresponds to the Stillinger-Lovett description of the free ion system. The coexistence curve and critical point parameters are obtained as a function of R(c) by grand-canonical Monte Carlo techniques. Our results show that this dependence is smooth but nonmonotonic and converges asymptotically towards the free ion case for relatively small values of R(c). This fact allows us to describe the gas-liquid transition in the free ion model as a transition between two dimerized fluid phases. The role of the unpaired ions can be considered as a perturbation of this picture.
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- J M Romero-Enrique
- Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Area de Física Teórica, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado Correos 1065, 41080 Seville, Spain.
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Cerdeiriña CA, Troncoso J, Carballo E, Romaní L. Heat capacity and thermal expansion anomalies in the nitromethane-1-butanol mixture near its upper critical point. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2002; 66:031507. [PMID: 12366120 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.66.031507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2002] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The heat capacity per unit volume C(p) and density rho of the nitromethane-1-butanol critical mixture near its upper consolute point are determined in this work. C(p) data are obtained at atmospheric pressure as a function of temperature in the one-phase and two-phase regions, using a differential scanning calorimeter. The suitability of DSC for recording C(p) as a function of T in the critical region is confirmed by measurements of the nitromethane-cyclohexane mixture, the results being quite consistent with reported data. By fitting the C(p) data in the one-phase region, the critical exponent alpha is found to be 0.110+/-0.014-and hence consistent with the universal accepted value-and the critical amplitude A(+)=0.0606+/-0.0006 J K(-1) cm(-3). Rho data were only obtained in the one-phase region, using a vibrating tube densimeter. The amplitude of the density anomaly was found to be C(+)(1)=-0.017+/-0.003 g cm(-3), which is moderately low in spite of the large difference between the densities of the pure liquids. The thermodynamic consistency of the A+ and C+1 values was examined in relation to the previously reported value for the slope of the critical line dT(c)/dp. The results of this analysis were consistent with previous work on this matter.
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- C A Cerdeiriña
- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Vigo, Facultad de Ciencias del Campus de Ourense, E 32004 Ourense, Spain
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Jiang J, Blum L, Bernard O, Prausnitz JM, Sandler SI. Criticality and phase behavior in the restricted-primitive model electrolyte: Description of ion association. J Chem Phys 2002. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1468638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Oleinikova A, Bonetti M. Electrical conductivity of highly concentrated electrolytes near the critical consolute point: A study of tetra-n-butylammonium picrate in alcohols of moderate dielectric constant. J Chem Phys 2001. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1415458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Jacob J, Anisimov MA, Sengers JV, Dechabo V, Yudin IK, Gammon RW. Light scattering and crossover critical phenomena in polymer solutions. APPLIED OPTICS 2001; 40:4160-4169. [PMID: 18360452 DOI: 10.1364/ao.40.004160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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An accurate photon-correlation spectrometer capable of measuring scattered light at two fixed scattering angles simultaneously in the temperature range from 10 to 120 degrees C is described. For the detection of the correlation function of the scattered light both an original correlator (PhotoCor-SP) with a linear-time-scale channel spacing and an ALV GmbH correlator (Model ALV-5000) with a logarithmic-time-scale channel spacing are used. High-resolution static and dynamic light-scattering measurements near the critical point of a polystyrene solution were performed with this instrument. The static-intensity measurements reveal that the crossover from mean-field to Ising behavior occurs at a temperature at which the correlation length of the critical fluctuations becomes equal to the radius of gyration of the polymer molecule. We found that the wave-number dependence and the temperature dependence of the diffusion coefficient of the concentration fluctuations are not consistent with existing theory for critical dynamics in low-molecular-weight liquid mixtures.
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Agayan VA, Anisimov MA, Sengers JV. Crossover parametric equation of state for Ising-like systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2001; 64:026125. [PMID: 11497669 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.64.026125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We present a parametric equation for the thermodynamic properties in the critical region of three-dimensional Ising-like systems which include fluids and fluid mixtures. The equation of state incorporates a crossover from singular Ising behavior asymptotically close to the critical point to classical (mean-field) behavior further away from the critical point, characterized by two physical crossover parameters: a coupling constant related to the strength and range of molecular interactions and a "cutoff" wave number for the critical fluctuations. In the asymptotic Ising limit, the crossover equation reproduces the most recent theoretical estimates for the universal ratios of the leading and correction-to-scaling critical amplitudes. The equation has been tested by comparing it with recent experimental thermodynamic-property data for 3He near its vapor-liquid critical point.
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- V A Agayan
- Institute for Physical Science and Technnology and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA
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Bianchi HL, Japas ML. Phase equilibria of a near-critical ionic system. Critical exponent of the order parameter. J Chem Phys 2001. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1409362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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