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Meijer BE, Dixey RJC, Demmel F, Perry R, Walker HC, Phillips AE. Dynamics in the ordered and disordered phases of barocaloric adamantane. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:9282-9293. [PMID: 36919868 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp05412d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
Abstract
High-entropy order-disorder phase transitions can be used for efficient and eco-friendly barocaloric solid-state cooling. Here the barocaloric effect is reported in an archetypal plastic crystal, adamantane. Adamantane has a colossal isothermally reversible entropy change of 106 J K-1 kg-1. Extremely low hysteresis means that this can be accessed at pressure differences less than 200 bar. Configurational entropy can only account for about 40% of the total entropy change; the remainder is due to vibrational effects. Using neutron spectroscopy and supercell lattice dynamics calculations, it is found that this vibrational entropy change is mainly caused by softening in the high-entropy phase of acoustic modes that correspond to molecular rotations. We attribute this difference in the dynamics to the contrast between an 'interlocked' state in the low-entropy phase and sphere-like behaviour in the high-entropy phase. Although adamantane is a simple van der Waals solid with near-spherical molecules, this approach can be leveraged for the design of more complex barocaloric molecular crystals. Moreover, this study shows that supercell lattice dynamics calculations can accurately map the effect of orientational disorder on the phonon spectrum, paving the way for studying the vibrational entropy, thermal conductivity, and other thermodynamic effects in more complex materials.
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- Bernet E Meijer
- School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK.
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- School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK.
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK.
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- School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK.
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Lerner E, Bouchbinder E. Disordered Crystals Reveal Soft Quasilocalized Glassy Excitations. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 129:095501. [PMID: 36083650 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.095501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Structural glasses formed by quenching a melt are known to host a population of low-energy quasilocalized (nonphononic) excitations whose frequencies ω follow a universal ∼ω^{4} distribution as ω→0, independently of the glass formation history, the interparticle interaction potential, or spatial dimension. Here, we show that the universal quartic law of nonphononic excitations also holds in disordered crystals featuring finite long-range order, which is absent in their glassy counterparts. We thus establish that the degree of universality of the quartic law extends beyond structural glasses quenched from a melt. We further find that disordered crystals, whose level of disorder can be continuously controlled, host many more quasilocalized excitations than expected based on their degree of mechanical disorder-quantified by the relative fluctuations of the shear modulus-as compared to structural glasses featuring a similar degree of mechanical disorder. Our results are related to glasslike anomalies experimentally observed in disordered crystals. More broadly, they constitute an important step toward tracing the essential ingredients necessary for the emergence of universal nonphononic excitations in disordered solids.
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- E Lerner
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Chemical and Biological Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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Miyazaki Y, Nakano M, Krivchikov AI, Koroyuk OA, Gebbia JF, Cazorla C, Tamarit JL. Low-Temperature Heat Capacity Anomalies in Ordered and Disordered Phases of Normal and Deuterated Thiophene. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:2112-2117. [PMID: 33625859 PMCID: PMC8594864 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We measured the specific heat Cp of normal (C4H4S) and deuterated (C4D4S) thiophene in the temperature interval of 1 ≤ T, K ≤ 25. C4H4S exhibits a metastable phase II2 and a stable phase V, both with frozen orientational disorder (OD), whereas C4D4S exhibits a metastable phase II2, which is analogous to the OD phase II2 of C4H4S and a fully ordered stable phase V. Our measurements demonstrate the existence of a large bump in the heat capacity of both stable and metastable C4D4S and C4H4S phases at temperatures of ∼10 K, which significantly departs from the expected Debye temperature behavior of Cp ≈ T3. This case study demonstrates that the identified low-temperature Cp anomaly, typically referred to as a "Boson-peak" in the context of glassy crystals, is not exclusive of disordered materials.
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- Y. Miyazaki
- Research
Center for Thermal and Entropic Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka 560-0043, Osaka, Japan
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- Research
Center for Thermal and Entropic Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka 560-0043, Osaka, Japan
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- B.
Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences Ukraine, 47 Science Avenue, Kharkov 61103, Ukraine
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- B.
Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences Ukraine, 47 Science Avenue, Kharkov 61103, Ukraine
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- Grup
de Caracterizació de Materials, Departament de Física,
EEBE and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, Barcelona 08019, Catalonia, Spain
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- Departament
de Física, Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya, Campus
Nord B4−B5, Barcelona E-08034, Catalonia, Spain
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- Grup
de Caracterizació de Materials, Departament de Física,
EEBE and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, Barcelona 08019, Catalonia, Spain
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Vila-Costa A, Ràfols-Ribé J, Gonzalez-Silveira M, Lopeandía A, Tamarit JL, Rodríguez-Viejo J. Multiple glass transitions in vapor-deposited orientational glasses of the most fragile plastic crystal Freon 113. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:10436-10441. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00976k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Stable glass formation for both structural glass and as-deposited glassy crystal at deposition temperatures below Tg.
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- A. Vila-Costa
- Grup de Nanomaterials i Microsistemes
- Departament de Física
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- 08193 Bellaterra
- Spain
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- Grup de Nanomaterials i Microsistemes
- Departament de Física
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- 08193 Bellaterra
- Spain
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- Grup de Nanomaterials i Microsistemes
- Departament de Física
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- 08193 Bellaterra
- Spain
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- Grup de Nanomaterials i Microsistemes
- Departament de Física
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- 08193 Bellaterra
- Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials
- Departament de Física and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- EEBE
- 08019 Barcelona
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- Grup de Nanomaterials i Microsistemes
- Departament de Física
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- 08193 Bellaterra
- Spain
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Cui B, Gebbia JF, Tamarit JL, Zaccone A. Disentangling α and β relaxation in orientationally disordered crystals with theory and experiments. Phys Rev E 2018; 97:053001. [PMID: 29906920 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.053001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2018] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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We use a microscopically motivated generalized Langevin equation (GLE) approach to link the vibrational density of states (VDOS) to the dielectric response of orientational glasses (OGs). The dielectric function calculated based on the GLE is compared with experimental data for the paradigmatic case of two OGs: freon-112 and freon-113, around and just above T_{g}. The memory function is related to the integral of the VDOS times a spectral coupling function γ(ω_{p}), which tells the degree of dynamical coupling between molecular degrees of freedom at different eigenfrequencies. The comparative analysis of the two freons reveals that the appearance of a secondary β relaxation in freon-112 is due to cooperative dynamical coupling in the regime of mesoscopic motions caused by stronger anharmonicity (absent in freon-113) and is associated with the comparatively lower boson peak in the VDOS. The proposed framework brings together all the key aspects of glassy physics (VDOS with the boson peak, dynamical heterogeneity, dissipation, and anharmonicity) into a single model.
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- Bingyu Cui
- Statistical Physics Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, CB3 0AS Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Grup de Caracterizacio de Materials, Departament de Fisica, EEBE, Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia
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- Grup de Caracterizacio de Materials, Departament de Fisica, EEBE, Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia
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- Statistical Physics Group, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, CB3 0AS Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Gebbia JF, Ramos MA, Szewczyk D, Jezowski A, Krivchikov AI, Horbatenko YV, Guidi T, Bermejo FJ, Tamarit JL. Glassy Anomalies in the Low-Temperature Thermal Properties of a Minimally Disordered Crystalline Solid. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:215506. [PMID: 29219416 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.215506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The low-temperature thermal and transport properties of an unusual kind of crystal exhibiting minimal molecular positional and tilting disorder have been measured. The material, namely, low-dimensional, highly anisotropic pentachloronitrobenzene has a layered structure of rhombohedral parallel planes in which the molecules execute large-amplitude in-plane as well as concurrent out-of-plane librational motions. Our study reveals that low-temperature glassy anomalies can be found in a system with minimal disorder due to the freezing of (mostly in-plane) reorientational jumps of molecules between equivalent crystallographic positions with partial site occupation. Our findings will pave the way to a deeper understanding of the origin of the above-mentioned universal glassy properties at low temperature.
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- J F Gebbia
- Grup de Caracterizació de Materials, Departament de Fisica, EEBE and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC) and Instituto Nicolás Cabrera, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Francisco Tomás y Valiente 7, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Institute for Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences Okólna 2, 50-422 Wrocław, Poland
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- Institute for Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences Okólna 2, 50-422 Wrocław, Poland
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- B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of NAS Ukraine, 47 Science Avenue, Kharkov 61103, Ukraine
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- B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of NAS Ukraine, 47 Science Avenue, Kharkov 61103, Ukraine
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- ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterizació de Materials, Departament de Fisica, EEBE and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Caballero NB, Zuriaga M, Tamarit JL, Serra P. Dynamic heterogeneity in an orientational glass. J Chem Phys 2017; 147:184501. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5004671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Nirvana B. Caballero
- CNEA, CONICET, Centro Atomico Bariloche, 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina
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- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina and IFEG-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, X5016LAE Córdoba, Argentina
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física, EEBE and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina and IFEG-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, X5016LAE Córdoba, Argentina
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Vispa A, Romanini M, Ramos MA, Pardo LC, Bermejo FJ, Hassaine M, Krivchikov AI, Taylor JW, Tamarit JL. Thermodynamic and Kinetic Fragility of Freon 113: The Most Fragile Plastic Crystal. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:105701. [PMID: 28339247 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.105701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We present a dynamic and thermodynamic study of the orientational glass former Freon 113 (1,1,2-trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethane, CCl_{2}F-CClF_{2}) in order to analyze its kinetic and thermodynamic fragilities. Freon 113 displays internal molecular degrees of freedom that promote a complex energy landscape. Experimental specific heat and its microscopic origin, the vibrational density of states from inelastic neutron scattering, together with the orientational dynamics obtained by means of dielectric spectroscopy have revealed the highest fragility value, both thermodynamic and kinetic, found for this orientational glass former. The excess in both Debye-reduced specific heat and density of states (boson peak) evidences the existence of glassy low-energy excitations. We demonstrate that early proposed correlations between the boson peak and the Debye specific heat value are elusive as revealed by the clear counterexample of the studied case.
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- A Vispa
- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física, EEBE and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física, EEBE and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC) and Instituto Nicolás Cabrera, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Francisco Tomás y Valiente 7, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física, EEBE and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC) and Instituto Nicolás Cabrera, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Francisco Tomás y Valiente 7, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of NAS Ukraine, 47 Science Avenue, 61103 Kharkov, Ukraine
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- Rutherford Appleton Lab, ISIS Facility, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England and European Spallation Source, Data management and software centre, COBIS, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física, EEBE and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Tripathi P, Mitsari E, Romanini M, Serra P, Tamarit JL, Zuriaga M, Macovez R. Orientational relaxations in solid (1,1,2,2)tetrachloroethane. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:164505. [PMID: 27131555 DOI: 10.1063/1.4947477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We employ dielectric spectroscopy and molecular dynamic simulations to investigate the dipolar dynamics in the orientationally disordered solid phase of (1,1,2,2)tetrachloroethane. Three distinct orientational dynamics are observed as separate dielectric loss features, all characterized by a simply activated temperature dependence. The slower process, associated to a glassy transition at 156 ± 1 K, corresponds to a cooperative motion by which each molecule rotates by 180° around the molecular symmetry axis through an intermediate state in which the symmetry axis is oriented roughly orthogonally to the initial and final states. Of the other two dipolar relaxations, the intermediate one is the Johari-Goldstein precursor relaxation of the cooperative dynamics, while the fastest process corresponds to an orientational fluctuation of single molecules into a higher-energy orientation. The Kirkwood correlation factor of the cooperative relaxation is of the order of one tenth, indicating that the molecular dipoles maintain on average a strong antiparallel alignment during their collective motion. These findings show that the combination of dielectric spectroscopy and molecular simulations allows studying in great detail the orientational dynamics in molecular solids.
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- P Tripathi
- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSEIB, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSEIB, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSEIB, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and IFEG-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, X5016LAE Córdoba, Argentina
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSEIB, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and IFEG-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, X5016LAE Córdoba, Argentina
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ETSEIB, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Pérez SC, Zuriaga M, Serra P, Wolfenson A, Negrier P, Tamarit JL. Dynamic characterization of crystalline and glass phases of deuterated 1,1,2,2 tetrachloroethane. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:134502. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4931824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Silvina C. Pérez
- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and IFEG-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, X5016LAE Córdoba, Argentina
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- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and IFEG-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, X5016LAE Córdoba, Argentina
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- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and IFEG-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, X5016LAE Córdoba, Argentina
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- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and IFEG-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, X5016LAE Córdoba, Argentina
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- Université Bordeaux, LOMA, UMR 5798, F-33400 Talence, France and LOMA, UMR 5798, F-33400 Talence, France
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, ETSEIB, Diagonal 647, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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