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Shukla S, Wu C, Mishra A, Pan J, Charnay AP, Khomane A, Deshmukh A, Zhou J, Mukherjee M, Gurnani R, Rout P, Casalini R, Ramprasad R, Fayer MD, Vashishta P, Cao Y, Sotzing G. Pendant Group Functionalization of Cyclic Olefin for High Temperature and High-Density Energy Storage. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024:e2402133. [PMID: 38767177 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202402133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Revised: 04/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024]
Abstract
High-temperature flexible polymer dielectrics are critical for high density energy storage and conversion. The need to simultaneously possess a high bandgap, dielectric constant and glass transition temperature forms a substantial design challenge for novel dielectric polymers. Here, by varying halogen substituents of an aromatic pendant hanging off a bicyclic mainchain polymer, a class of high-temperature olefins with adjustable thermal stability are obtained, all with uncompromised large bandgaps. Halogens substitution of the pendant groups at para or ortho position of polyoxanorborneneimides (PONB) imparts it with tunable high glass transition from 220 to 245 °C, while with high breakdown strength of 625-800 MV/m. A high energy density of 7.1 J/cc at 200 °C is achieved with p-POClNB, representing the highest energy density reported among homo-polymers. Molecular dynamic simulations and ultrafast infrared spectroscopy are used to probe the free volume element distribution and chain relaxations pertinent to dielectric thermal properties. An increase in free volume element is observed with the change in the pendant group from fluorine to bromine at the para position; however, smaller free volume element is observed for the same pendant when at the ortho position due to steric hindrance. With the dielectric constant and bandgap remaining stable, properly designing the pendant groups of PONB boosts its thermal stability for high density electrification.
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- Stuti Shukla
- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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- Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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- Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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- Chemistry Division, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA
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Charnay AP, Pan J, Fayer MD. Influence of Internal Bond Rotation on Ultrafast IR Anisotropy Measurements and the Internal Rotational Potential. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:280-286. [PMID: 38150550 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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Measurement of molecular orientation relaxation using ultrafast infrared (IR) pump-probe experiments is widely used to understand the properties of liquids and other systems. In the simplest situation, the anisotropy decay is a single exponential reflecting diffusive orientational relaxation. However, the anisotropy decay is frequently biexponential. The faster component is caused by solvent caging restricting angular sampling until constraint release permits all angles to be sampled. Here, we describe another mechanism that limits the range of sampling, i.e., sampling of a restricted range of angles via internal bond reorientation on a rotational potential surface with barriers. If the internal angular sampling occurs faster than the entire molecule's diffusive orientational relaxation, it will produce a fast component of anisotropy decay with a cone angle determined by the shape of the internal rotation potential. We studied four molecules to illustrate the effects of internal bond rotations on anisotropy decay. The molecules are p-chlorobenzonitrile, phenylselenocyanate, phenylthiocyanate, and 2-nitrophenylselenocyante in the solvent N,N-dimethylformamide. The CN stretch is used as the IR chromophore. p-Chlorobenzonitrile does not have internal rotation; its anisotropy decays as a single exponential. The other three have bent geometries and internal rotation of the moieties containing the CN occurs; the anisotropies decay as biexponentials. The faster of the two decays can be understood in terms of motions on the rotational potential surface. A method is developed for extracting the intramolecular rotational potential surface by employing a modification of the harmonic cone model, and the results are compared to density functional theory calculations.
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- Aaron P Charnay
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Fica-Contreras SM, Charnay AP, Pan J, Fayer MD. Rethinking Vibrational Stark Spectroscopy: Peak Shifts, Line Widths, and the Role of Non-Stark Solvent Coupling. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:717-731. [PMID: 36629314 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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A vibration's transition frequency is partly determined by the first-order Stark effect, which accounts for the electric field experienced by the mode. Using ultrafast infrared pump-probe and FT-IR spectroscopies, we characterized both the 0 → 1 and 1 → 2 vibrational transitions' field-dependent peak positions and line widths of the CN stretching mode of benzonitrile (BZN) and phenyl selenocyanate (PhSeCN) in ten solvents. We present a theoretical model that decomposes the observed line width into a field-dependent Stark contribution and a field-independent non-Stark solvent coupling contribution (NSC). The model demonstrates that the field-dependent peak position is independent of the line width, even when the NSC dominates the latter. Experiments show that when the Stark tuning rate is large compared to the NSC (PhSeCN), the line width has a field dependence, albeit with major NSC-induced excursions from linearity. When the Stark tuning rate is small relative to the NSC (BZN), the line width is field-independent. BZN's line widths are substantially larger for the 1 → 2 transition, indicating a 1 → 2 transition enhancement of the NSC. Additionally, we examine, theoretically and experimentally, the difference in the 0 → 1 and 1 → 2 transitions' Stark tuning rates. Second-order perturbation theory combined with density functional theory explain the difference and show that the 1 → 2 transition's Stark tuning rate is ∼10% larger. The Stark tuning rate of PhSeCN is larger than BZN's for both transitions, consistent with the theoretical calculations. This study provides new insights into vibrational line shape components and a more general understanding of the vibrational response to external electric fields.
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California94305, United States
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Janissen R, Filonenko GA. Mechanochemistry of Spiropyran under Internal Stresses of a Glassy Polymer. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:23198-23204. [PMID: 36509594 PMCID: PMC9782785 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c11280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Mechanophores are powerful molecular tools used to track bond rupture and characterize mechanical damage in polymers. The majority of mechanophores are known to respond to external stresses, and we report in this study the first precedent of a mechanochemical response to internal, residual stresses that accumulate during polymer vitrification. While internal stress is intrinsic to polymers that can form solids, we demonstrate that it can dramatically affect the mechanochemistry of spiropyran probes and alter their intramolecular isomerization barriers by up to 70 kJ mol-1. This new behavior of spiropyrans (SPs) enables their application for analysis of internal stresses distribution and their mechanochemical characterization on the molecular level. Spectroscopy and imaging based on SP mechanochemistry showed high topological sensitivity and allowed us to discern different levels of internal stress impacting various locations along the polymer chain. The nature of the developed technique allows for wide-field imaging of stress heterogeneities in polymer samples of irregular shapes and dimensions, making it feasible to directly observe molecular-level manifestations of mechanical stresses that accompany the formation of a vast number of solid polymers.
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- Richard Janissen
- Single-Molecule
Biophysics, Department of Bionanoscience, Delft University of Technology, van der Maasweg 9, Delft 2629HZ, The Netherlands
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Delft
University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, Delft 2628
CD, The Netherlands,
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Orellana-Barrasa J, Ferrández-Montero A, Boccaccini AR, Ferrari B, Pastor JY. The Mechanical, Thermal, and Chemical Properties of PLA-Mg Filaments Produced via a Colloidal Route for Fused-Filament Fabrication. Polymers (Basel) 2022; 14:polym14245414. [PMID: 36559781 PMCID: PMC9787803 DOI: 10.3390/polym14245414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The effect of Mg particles on the thermal, chemical, physical, and primarily mechanical properties of 3D-printed PLA/Mg composites is studied in this paper. Recently, new colloidal processing has been proposed to introduce Mg particles into the PLA matrix, which ensures good dispersion of the particles and better thermal properties, allowing for thermal processing routes such as extrusion or 3D printing via fused-filament fabrication. The thermal and physical properties are here studied in 1D single-filament-printed PLA/Mg composites with 0 to 10 wt.% of Mg particles by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC); we analyse the PLA chain modifications produced, the crystallinity fraction, and the different crystalline forms of the PLA after thermal processing. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) is used to confirm the influence of the PLA/Mg colloidal processing after printing. The mechanical properties are measured with a universal tensile test machine on the 1D single-printed filaments via fused-filament fabrication (FFF); the filaments were naturally aged to stable conditions. Filaments with and without a notch are studied to obtain the materials' tensile strength, elastic modulus, and fracture toughness. Different analytical models to explain the results of the PLA-Mg were studied, in which the minimum values for the interface strength of the PLA-Mg composites were calculated.
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- Jaime Orellana-Barrasa
- Centro de Investigación en Materiales Estructurales (CIME), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Biomaterials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Cauerstrasse 6, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio (CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación en Materiales Estructurales (CIME), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Chiari L, Nippa M, Ikeda Y, Sato T, Tsujimoto Y, Kato A, Chiba N, Fujinami M. Free volume in carbon‐black‐filled isoprene rubber investigated by positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy. J Appl Polym Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/app.52857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Luca Chiari
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology Chiba University Chiba Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology Chiba University Chiba Japan
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- Faculty of Molecular Chemistry and Engineering Kyoto Institute of Technology Kyoto Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology Kyoto Institute of Technology Kyoto Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology Kyoto Institute of Technology Kyoto Japan
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- Phenomenon Analysis Department NISSAN ARC, LTD Yokosuka Japan
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- Functional Analysis Department NISSAN ARC, LTD Yokosuka Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology Chiba University Chiba Japan
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Zhao R, Shirley JC, Lee E, Grofe A, Li H, Baiz CR, Gao J. Origin of thiocyanate spectral shifts in water and organic solvents. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:104106. [PMID: 35291777 PMCID: PMC8923707 DOI: 10.1063/5.0082969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Vibrational spectroscopy is a useful technique for probing chemical environments. The development of models that can reproduce the spectra of nitriles and azides is valuable because these probes are uniquely suited for investigating complex systems. Empirical vibrational spectroscopic maps are commonly employed to obtain the instantaneous vibrational frequencies during molecular dynamics simulations but often fail to adequately describe the behavior of these probes, especially in its transferability to a diverse range of environments. In this paper, we demonstrate several reasons for the difficulty in constructing a general-purpose vibrational map for methyl thiocyanate (MeSCN), a model for cyanylated biological probes. In particular, we found that electrostatics alone are not a sufficient metric to categorize the environments of different solvents, and the dominant features in intermolecular interactions in the energy landscape vary from solvent to solvent. Consequently, common vibrational mapping schemes do not cover all essential interaction terms adequately, especially in the treatment of van der Waals interactions. Quantum vibrational perturbation (QVP) theory, along with a combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical potential for solute-solvent interactions, is an alternative and efficient modeling technique, which is compared in this paper, to yield spectroscopic results in good agreement with experimental FTIR. QVP has been used to analyze the computational data, revealing the shortcomings of the vibrational maps for MeSCN in different solvents. The results indicate that insights from QVP analysis can be used to enhance the transferability of vibrational maps in future studies.
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- Ruoqi Zhao
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province 130023, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province 130023, China
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province 130023, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Institute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Roget SA, Carter-Fenk KA, Fayer MD. Water Dynamics and Structure of Highly Concentrated LiCl Solutions Investigated Using Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:4233-4243. [PMID: 35226487 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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In highly concentrated salt solutions, the water hydrogen bond (H-bond) network is completely disrupted by the presence of ions. Water is forced to restructure as dictated by the water-ion and ion-ion interactions. Using ultrafast polarization-selective pump-probe (PSPP) spectroscopy measurements of the OD stretch of dilute HOD, we demonstrate that the limited water-water H-bonding present in concentrated lithium chloride solutions (up to four waters per ion pair) is, on average, stronger than that occurring in bulk water. Furthermore, information on the orientational dynamics and the angular restriction of water H-bonded to both water oxygens and chloride anions was obtained through analysis of the frequency-dependent anisotropy decays. It was found that, when the salt concentration increased, the water showed increasing restriction and slowing at frequencies correlated with strong H-bonding. The angular restriction of the water molecules and strengthening of water-water H-bonds are due to the formation of a water-ion network not present in bulk water and dilute salt solutions. The structural evolution of the ionic medium was also observed through spectral diffusion of the OD stretch using 2D IR spectroscopy. Compared to bulk water, there is significant slowing of the biexponential spectral diffusion dynamics. The slowest component of the spectral diffusion (13 ps) is virtually identical to the time for complete reorientation of HOD measured with the PSPP experiments. This result suggests that the slowest component of the spectral diffusion reflects rearrangement of water molecules in the water-ion network.
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- Sean A Roget
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Fica-Contreras SM, Daniels R, Yassin O, Hoffman DJ, Pan J, Sotzing G, Fayer MD. Long Vibrational Lifetime R-Selenocyanate Probes for Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy: Properties and Synthesis. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:8907-8918. [PMID: 34339200 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c04939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ultrafast infrared vibrational spectroscopy is widely used for the investigation of dynamics in systems from water to model membranes. Because the experimental observation window is limited to a few times the probe's vibrational lifetime, a frequent obstacle for the measurement of a broad time range is short molecular vibrational lifetimes (typically a few to tens of picoseconds). Five new long-lifetime aromatic selenocyanate vibrational probes have been synthesized and their vibrational properties characterized. These probes are compared to commercial phenyl selenocyanate. The vibrational lifetimes range between ∼400 and 500 ps in complex solvents, which are some of the longest room-temperature vibrational lifetimes reported to date. In contrast to vibrations that are long-lived in simple solvents such as CCl4, but become much shorter in complex solvents, the probes discussed here have ∼400 ps lifetimes in complex solvents and even longer in simple solvents. One of them has a remarkable lifetime of 1235 ps in CCl4. These probes have a range of molecular sizes and geometries that can make them useful for placement into different complex materials due to steric reasons, and some of them have functionalities that enable their synthetic incorporation into larger molecules, such as industrial polymers. We investigated the effect of a range of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing para-substituents on the vibrational properties of the CN stretch. The probes have a solvent-independent linear relationship to the Hammett substituent parameter when evaluated with respect to the CN vibrational frequency and the ipso 13C NMR chemical shift.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Hoffman DJ, Fica-Contreras SM, Pan J, Fayer MD. Distinguishing steric and electrostatic molecular probe orientational ordering via their effects on reorientation-induced spectral diffusion. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:244104. [PMID: 34241361 DOI: 10.1063/5.0053308] [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 theoretical framework for reorientation-induced spectral diffusion (RISD) describes the polarization dependence of spectral diffusion dynamics as measured with two-dimensional (2D) correlation spectroscopy and related techniques. Generally, RISD relates to the orientational dynamics of the molecular chromophore relative to local electric fields of the medium. The predictions of RISD have been shown to be very sensitive to both restricted orientational dynamics (generally arising from steric hindrance) and the distribution of local electric fields relative to the probe (electrostatic ordering). Here, a theory that combines the two effects is developed analytically and supported with numerical calculations. The combined effects can smoothly vary the polarization dependence of spectral diffusion from the purely steric case (least polarization dependence) to the purely electrostatic case (greatest polarization dependence). Analytic approximations of the modified RISD equations were also developed using the orientational dynamics of the molecular probe and two order parameters describing the degree of electrostatic ordering. It was found that frequency-dependent orientational dynamics are a possible consequence of the combined electrostatic and steric effects, providing a test for the applicability of this model to experimental systems. The modified RISD equations were then used to successfully describe the anomalous polarization-dependent spectral diffusion seen in 2D infrared spectroscopy in a polystyrene oligomer system that exhibits frequency-dependent orientational dynamics. The degree of polarization-dependent spectral diffusion enables the extent of electrostatic ordering in a chemical system to be quantified and distinguished from steric ordering.
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- David J Hoffman
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Fica-Contreras SM, Hoffman DJ, Pan J, Liang C, Fayer MD. Free Volume Element Sizes and Dynamics in Polystyrene and Poly(methyl methacrylate) Measured with Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:3583-3594. [PMID: 33630576 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c13397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The size, size distribution, dynamics, and electrostatic properties of free volume elements (FVEs) in polystyrene (PS) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) were investigated using the Restricted Orientation Anisotropy Method (ROAM), an ultrafast infrared spectroscopic technique. The restricted orientational dynamics of a vibrational probe embedded in the polymer matrix provides detailed information on FVE sizes and their probability distribution. The probe's orientational dynamics vary as a function of its frequency within the inhomogeneously broadened vibrational absorption spectrum. By characterizing the degree of orientational restriction at different probe frequencies, FVE radii and their probability distribution were determined. PS has larger FVEs and a broader FVE size distribution than PMMA. The average FVE radii in PS and PMMA are 3.4 and 3.0 Å, respectively. The FVE radius probability distribution shows that the PS distribution is non-Gaussian, with a tail to larger radii, whereas in PMMA, the distribution is closer to Gaussian. FVE structural dynamics, previously unavailable through other techniques, occur on a ∼150 ps time scale in both polymers. The dynamics involve FVE shape fluctuations which, on average, conserve the FVE size. FVE radii were associated with corresponding electric field strengths through the first-order vibrational Stark effect of the CN stretch of the vibrational probe, phenyl selenocyanate (PhSeCN). PMMA displayed unique measured FVE radii for each electric field strength. By contrast, PS showed that, while larger radii correspond to unique and relatively weak electric fields, the smallest measured radii map onto a broad distribution of strong electric fields.
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Computational Modeling Core Facility, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Hoffman DJ, Fica-Contreras SM, Pan J, Fayer MD. Pulse-shaped chopping: Eliminating and characterizing heat effects in ultrafast infrared spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:204201. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0031581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- David J. Hoffman
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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ROAMing in mutable voids: Polymer free volumes from wobbling vibrational probes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:15385-15387. [PMID: 32576695 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2009604117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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