Nuclear-Magnetic-Resonance Measurements Reveal the Origin of the Debye Process in Monohydroxy Alcohols

作者:Gainaru C*; Meier R; Schildmann S; Lederle C; Hiller W; Roessler E A; Boehmer R
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2010, 105(25): 258303.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.258303

摘要

Monohydroxy alcohols show a structural relaxation and at longer time scales a Debye-type dielectric peak. From spin-lattice relaxation experiments using different nuclear probes, an intermediate, slower-than-structural dynamics is identified for n-butanol. Based on these findings and on translational diffusion measurements, a model of self-restructuring, transient chains is proposed. The model is demonstrated to explain consistently the so-far puzzling observations made for this class of hydrogen-bonded glass forming liquids.

  • 出版日期2010-12-16