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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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Cononsolvency of the responsive polymer poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in water/methanol mixtures: a dynamic light scattering study of the effect of pressure on the collective dynamics. Colloid Polym Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s00396-022-04987-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The collective dynamics of 25 wt% poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) solutions in water or an 80:20 v/v water/methanol mixture are investigated in the one-phase region in dependence on pressure and temperature using dynamic light scattering. Throughout, two dynamic modes are observed, the fast one corresponding to the relaxation of the chain segments within the polymer blobs and the slow one to the relaxation of the blobs. A pressure scan in the one-phase region on an aqueous solution at 34.0 °C, i.e., slightly below the maximum of the coexistence line, reveals that the dynamic correlation length of the fast mode increases when the left and the right branch of the coexistence line are approached. Thus, the chains are rather swollen far away from the coexistence line, but contracted near the phase transition. Temperature scans of solutions in neat H2O or in H2O/CD3OD at 0.1, 130, and 200 MPa reveal that the dynamic correlation length of the fast mode shows critical behavior. However, the critical exponents are significantly larger than the value predicted by mean-field theory for the static correlation length, ν = 0.5, and the exponent is significantly larger for the solution in the H2O/CD3OD mixture than in neat H2O.
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Raftopoulos KN, Kyriakos K, Nuber M, Niebuur BJ, Holderer O, Ohl M, Ivanova O, Pasini S, Papadakis CM. Co-nonsolvency in concentrated aqueous solutions of PNIPAM: effect of methanol on the collective and the chain dynamics. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:8462-8472. [PMID: 32856669 DOI: 10.1039/d0sm01007c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The polymer dynamics in concentrated solutions of poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) (PNIPAM) in D2O/CD3OD mixtures is investigated in the one-phase region. Two polymer concentrations (9 and 25 wt%) and CD3OD contents in the solvent mixture of 0, 10 and 15 vol% are chosen. Temperature-resolved dynamic light scattering (DLS) reveals the collective dynamics. Two modes are observed, namely the fast relaxation of polymer segments within the blobs and the slow collective relaxation of the blobs. As the cloud point is approached, the correlation length related to the fast mode increases with CD3OD content. It features critical scaling behavior, which is consistent with mean-field behavior for the 9 wt% PNIPAM solution in pure D2O and with 3D Ising behavior for all other solutions. While the slow mode is not very strong in the 9 wt% PNIPAM solution in pure D2O, it is significantly more prominent as CD3OD is added and at all CD3OD contents in the 25 wt% solution, which may be attributed to enhanced interaction between the polymers. Neutron spin-echo spectroscopy (NSE) reveals a decay in the intermediate structure factor which indicates a diffusive process. For the polymer concentration of 9 wt%, the diffusion coefficients from NSE are similar to the ones from the fast relaxation observed in DLS. In contrast, they are significantly lower for the solutions having a polymer concentration of 25 wt%, which is attributed to the influence of the dominant large-scale dynamic heterogeneities. To summarize, addition of cosolvent leads to enhanced large-scale heterogeneities, which are reflected in the dynamic behavior at small length scales.
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- Konstantinos N Raftopoulos
- Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
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- Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
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- Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
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- Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
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- Jülich Centre for Neutron Science at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Lichtenbergstr. 1, 85747 Garching, Germany
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- Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str., 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Jülich Centre for Neutron Science at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Lichtenbergstr. 1, 85747 Garching, Germany
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- Jülich Centre for Neutron Science at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Lichtenbergstr. 1, 85747 Garching, Germany
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- Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
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Niebuur BJ, Ko CH, Zhang X, Claude KL, Chiappisi L, Schulte A, Papadakis CM. Pressure Dependence of the Cononsolvency Effect in Aqueous Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Solutions: A SANS Study. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Bart-Jan Niebuur
- Physik-Department, Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Large Scale Structures Group, Institut Laue-Langevin, 71, Avenue des Martyrs, CS 20 156, 38042 Grenoble, France
- Stranski Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie und Theoretische Chemie, Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 124, Sekr. TC7, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics and College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 4111 Libra Drive, Orlando, Florida 32816, United States
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- Physik-Department, Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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Zheng X, Anisimov MA, Sengers JV, He M. Unusual Transformation of Polymer Coils in a Mixed Solvent Close to the Critical Point. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 121:207802. [PMID: 30500260 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.207802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We have discovered unusual behavior of polymer coils in a binary solvent (nitroethane+isooctane) near the critical temperature of demixing. The exceptionally close refractive indices of the solvent components make the critical opalescence relatively weak, thus enabling us to simultaneously observe the Brownian motion of the polymer coils and the diverging correlation length of the critical fluctuations. The polymer coils exhibit a collapse-reswelling-expansion-reshrinking transition upon approaching the critical temperature. While the first stage (collapse) can be explained by the theory of Brochard and de Gennes, the subsequent expansion-reshrinking transition is a new unexpected phenomenon that has not been observed so far. We believe that this effect is generic and attribute it to microphase separation of the solvent inside the polymer coil.
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- Xiong Zheng
- Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
- Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, People's Republic of China
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- Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, People's Republic of China
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Zheng X, Anisimov MA, Sengers JV, He M. Mesoscopic Diffusion of Poly(ethylene oxide) in Pure and Mixed Solvents. J Phys Chem B 2017; 122:3454-3464. [PMID: 29131952 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We present results from an experimental dynamic light-scattering study of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) in both a pure solvent (water) and a mixed solvent (tert-butanol + water). The concentration dependence of the diffusive relaxation of the PEO molecules is found to be typical of polymers in a good solvent. However, the mesoscopic diffusive behavior of PEO in the mixed solvent is very different, indicating an initial collapse and subsequent reswelling of PEO caused by co-nonsolvency. Furthermore, in the solutions of PEO with very large molecular weights, we found additional hydrodynamic modes indicating the presence of PEO clusters and aggregates similar to those found by some other investigators.
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- Xiong Zheng
- Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , University of Maryland , College Park , Maryland 20742 , United States.,Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering , Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , Shaanxi Province 710049 , People's Republic of China
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- Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , University of Maryland , College Park , Maryland 20742 , United States.,Oil and Gas Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow 117333 , Russia
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- Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , University of Maryland , College Park , Maryland 20742 , United States
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- Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering , Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an , Shaanxi Province 710049 , People's Republic of China
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Brandt J, Oehlenschlaeger KK, Schmidt FG, Barner-Kowollik C, Lederer A. State-of-the-art analytical methods for assessing dynamic bonding soft matter materials. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2014; 26:5758-5785. [PMID: 24782412 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201400521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2014] [Revised: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Dynamic bonding materials are of high interest in a variety of fields in material science. The reversible nature of certain reaction classes is frequently employed for introducing key material properties such as the capability to self-heal. In addition to the synthetic effort required for designing such materials, their analysis is a highly complex--yet important--endeavor. Herein, we critically review the current state of the art analytical methods and their application in the context of reversible bonding on demand soft matter material characterization for an in-depth performance assessment. The main analytical focus lies on the characterization at the molecular level.
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- Josef Brandt
- Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung, Dresden e.V., Hohe Straße 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany and Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany
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Mirzaev SZ, Kaatze U. Broadband ultrasonic spectrometry of polystyrene-cyclohexane critical mixtures. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:042316. [PMID: 24229181 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.042316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Mutual diffusion coefficients, shear viscosities, and broadband ultrasonic attenuation spectra in the frequency range 100 kHz to 300 MHz have been measured for solutions of polystyrene in cyclohexane at two degrees of polymerization N and various temperatures near the critical. The exponent y(η) in the power law representation of the critical part in the viscosity deviates substantially from the universal value y(η) = 0.0435: y(η) = 0.028 (N = 288) and y(η) = 0.014 (N = 6242). Also, the adiabatic coupling constant g and the amplitudes ξ(0) and Γ(0) in the power laws of the correlation length and the relaxation rate of fluctuations, respectively, depend on N. This is especially obvious with the relaxation rates, for which Γ(0) = 5.8×10(9) at N = 288 and Γ(0) = 6.1×10(7) with the larger polymer results. A noteworthy feature is the difference between the relaxation rates from the diffusion coefficients and shear viscosities on the one hand and from the ultrasonic spectra on the other. Near the critical temperatures the latter Γ values deviate from power law behavior, indicating a coupling between the concentration fluctuations and structural isomerizations of the polymers.
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- Sirojiddin Z Mirzaev
- Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany and Institute of Ion-Plasma and Laser Technologies, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Dormon Yuli Street 33, 100125 Taschkent, Uzbekistan
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Mirzaev SZ, Heimburg T, Kaatze U. Critical behavior of polystyrene-cyclohexane: heat capacity and mass density. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 82:061502. [PMID: 21230673 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.061502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2010] [Revised: 10/22/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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At temperatures between 7.5 °C and 20 °C as well as 26 °C and 40 °C we have recorded the densities and specific heat at constant pressure for critical mixtures of polystyrene in cyclohexane. The degrees of polymerization were N=288 (critical temperature T(c)=9.77 °C ) and N=6242 (T(c)=27.56 °C), respectively. In the two-phase regime a series of reproducible events exists in the specific-heat traces, indicating the existence of nonequilibrium intermediate states as likely resulting from an oscillatory instability of droplet formation. In the one-phase region the critical contribution to the heat capacity follows power law with critical exponent α=0.11 compatible with Ising-like criticality. At larger N , however, the critical amplitude of the heat capacity is noticeably smaller than at lower degree of polymerization. This finding may be taken as an indication of different effects from competing mesoscale lengths: the radius of gyration of the polymer and the fluctuation correlation length of the mixture. The density traces reveal marginal deviations from simple linear temperature dependencies. If these deviations are analyzed in terms of critical contributions, different signs in the amplitude result, in conformity with the signs in the pressure dependence of the critical temperature. The absolute values of the amplitudes, however, are substantially larger than predicted from the critical amplitudes of the heat capacities.
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- Sirojiddin Z Mirzaev
- Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Litmanovich EA, Chernikova EV, Stoychev GV, Zakharchenko SO. Unusual Phase Behavior of the Mixture of Poly(acrylic acid) and Poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) in Acidic Media. Macromolecules 2010. [DOI: 10.1021/ma1003562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ekaterina A. Litmanovich
- Department of Polymer Science, Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 119991, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Polymer Science, Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 119991, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Polymer Science, Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 119991, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Polymer Science, Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 119991, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Litmanovich EA, Zakharchenko SO, Stoychev GV, Zezin AB. Phase separation in a poly(acrylic acid)-polycation system in acidic solutions. POLYMER SCIENCE SERIES A 2009. [DOI: 10.1134/s0965545x09060054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Bertrand CE, Linegar KL, Kostko AF, Anisimov MA. Multiscale dynamics of pretransitional fluctuations in the isotropic phase of a lyotropic liquid crystal. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2009; 79:041704. [PMID: 19518247 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.79.041704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2008] [Revised: 12/18/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Using an improved static and dynamic light-scattering technique, we have observed multiscale relaxation of the pretransitional fluctuations in the isotropic phase of a cromolyn aqueous solution, a lyotropic liquid crystal where rods are formed by aggregates of disklike molecules. We have detected the onset of cromolyn aggregation about 12 degrees C above the transition temperature. The onset is manifested by the emergence of strong scattering due to the fluctuations of local anisotropy and by the split of the diffusion dynamics into two distinctly different modes, one associated with the relatively fast diffusion of monomer-size particles and the other one with the much slower diffusion of the cromolyn aggregates. A third observed dynamic mode is associated with the pretransitional slowing down of fluctuations of the local anisotropy. This mode behaves differently in polarized and depolarized light scattering, due to a coupling between fluctuations of the local-anisotropy and velocity fluctuations.
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- C E Bertrand
- 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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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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Kostko AF, Anisimov MA, Sengers JV. Dynamics of critical fluctuations in polymer solutions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2007; 76:021804. [PMID: 17930058 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.76.021804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Using dynamic light scattering we have investigated the time dependence of fluctuations near the critical point of phase separation in solutions of polystyrene in cyclohexane with polymer molecular weights ranging from 196,000 to 11.4 x 10(6) g mol(-1). At the lowest polymer molecular weight the dynamic correlation function follows a single-exponential decay with a decay rate that can be represented by the mode-coupling theory of critical dynamics but with a mesoscopic viscosity that characterizes the hydrodynamic environment of the polymers in the solution. At all higher polymer molecular weights two distinct dynamic modes are observed, a slow and a fast mode, that originate from a coupling of the critical concentration fluctuations with viscoelastic relaxation of the polymer chain in solutions. This coupling causes an additional slowing down of the fluctuations on top of the well-known critical slowing down expected in the absence of a coupling between the two modes. From an analysis of the time dependence of the experimental dynamic correlation functions in terms of a theory of coupling of dynamic modes we are able to determine the viscoelastic properties of the polymers in the solution. These viscoelastic properties diverge in the theta-point limit of infinite polymer molecular weight.
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- A F Kostko
- Chemical and Life Sciences Engineering, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, USA
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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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Nastishin YA, Liu H, Shiyanovskii SV, Lavrentovich OD, Kostko AF, Anisimov MA. Pretransitional fluctuations in the isotropic phase of a lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2004; 70:051706. [PMID: 15600639 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.70.051706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2004] [Revised: 08/09/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We have studied isotropic-to-nematic pretransitional fluctuations in an aqueous solution of disodium cromoglycate (cromolyn) by static and dynamic light scattering. Cromolyn is a representative of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals with building units being elongated rods formed by aggregates of disk-like molecules. By combining light-scattering and viscosity measurements we have determined the correlation length and relaxation time of the orientational order-parameter fluctuations and estimated the size of the cromolyn aggregates. The pretransitional behavior of light scattering does not completely follow the classic Landau-de Gennes model. This feature is most probably associated with the variable length of cromolyn aggregates. We have observed a dramatic increase of the shear viscosity near the transition to the nematic phase, the fact which correlates with the idea of growing supramolecular aggregates. The steep temperature dependence of the viscosity is accompanied by a practically temperature-independent translational diffusion coefficient.
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- Yu A Nastishin
- Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
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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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Lytle A, Jacobs DT. Turbidity determination of the critical exponent η in the liquid–liquid mixture methanol and cyclohexane. J Chem Phys 2004; 120:5709-16. [PMID: 15267448 DOI: 10.1063/1.1647524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The turbidity of the liquid-liquid mixture methanol-cyclohexane has been measured very near its critical point and used to test competing theoretical predictions and to determine the critical correlation-correction exponent eta. By measuring the ratio of the transmitted to incident light intensities over five decades in reduced temperature, we are able to determine that Ferrell's theoretical prediction for the turbidity explains the data with the correlation length amplitude xi0=0.330+/-0.003 nm and critical exponents eta=0.041+/-0.005 and nu=0.632+/-0.002. These values are consistent with the values measured before for xi0 in this system and with the exponents predicted by theory. The data allow five different theoretical expressions to be tested and to select two as being equivalent when very close to the critical point.
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- Amy Lytle
- Physics Department, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA
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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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Kostko AF, Anisimov MA, Sengers JV. Dynamic crossover to tricriticality and anomalous slowdown of critical fluctuations by entanglements in polymer solutions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2002; 66:020803. [PMID: 12241142 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.66.020803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2002] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We have performed accurate dynamic light-scattering measurements near critical demixing points of solutions of polystyrene in cyclohexane with polymer molecular weight ranging from 200 000 to 11.4 x 10(6). Two dynamic modes have been observed, "slow" and "fast," which result from a coupling between diffusive relaxation of critical fluctuations of the concentration and viscoelastic relaxation associated with the entanglement network of the polymer chains. The coupling with the viscoelastic mode causes an additional slowdown of the critical mode on top of the uncoupled diffusion mode. By implementing crossover from the critical to the theta-point tricritical behavior for both static and dynamic properties, we are able to present a quantitative description of the phenomenon and obtain a scaling of the viscoelastic parameters as a function of the molecular weight.
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- A F Kostko
- Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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Anisimov MA, Kostko AF, Sengers JV. Competition of mesoscales and crossover to tricriticality in polymer solutions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2002; 65:051805. [PMID: 12059586 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.65.051805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We show that the approach to asymptotic fluctuation-induced critical behavior in polymer solutions is governed by a competition between a correlation length diverging at the critical point and an additional mesoscopic length-scale, the radius of gyration. Accurate light scattering experiments on polystyrene solutions in cyclohexane with polymer molecular weights ranging from 200 000 up to 11.4x10(6) clearly demonstrate a crossover between two universal regimes: a regime with Ising asymptotic critical behavior, where the correlation length prevails, and a regime with tricritical theta-point behavior determined by a mesoscopic polymer-chain length.
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- M A Anisimov
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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