Chemical isomeric effects on propanol glassy structures
Abstract
We have studied the structure of both propanol isomers in their glassy and crystalline states by neutron diffraction. The glass-transition temperatures of 1- and 2-propanol are about 98 and 115K, respectively and, surprisingly, even larger differences are observed for the melting temperatures of the stable crystals, which are 148 and 185K, respectively. Their supercooled liquid phases show rather different relaxation spectra, 1-propanol manifesting strong deviations from Debye behavior, whereas 2-propanol shows a far weaker effect. We discuss the spectra obtained for the static structure factor and the static pair correlation function D(r). There is a noticeable difference in the position of the first sharp diffraction peak, which clearly indicates a density change, well correlated with the period of the intermolecular oscillations shown by D(r).
- Publication:
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Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing
- Pub Date:
- 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s003390101118
- Bibcode:
- 2002ApPhA..74S.552C
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- PACS: 61.25.Em;
- 61.43.Fs;
- 61.12.Ex