| Autor: |
Syme, Christopher D., Mosses, Joanna, González-Jiménez, Mario, Shebanova, Olga, Walton, Finlay, Wynne, Klaas |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2017 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Scientific Reports. |
| ISSN: |
2045-2322 |
| DOI: |
10.1038/srep42439 |
| Popis: |
Frustration of crystallisation by locally favoured structures is critically important in linking the phenomena of supercooling, glass formation, and liquid-liquid transitions. Here we show that the putative liquid-liquid transition in n-butanol is in fact caused by geometric frustration associated with an isotropic to rippled lamellar liquid-crystal transition. Liquid-crystal phases are generally regarded as being “in between” the liquid and the crystalline state. In contrast, the liquid-crystal phase in supercooled n-butanol is found to inhibit transformation to the crystal. The observed frustrated phase is a template for similar ordering in other liquids and likely to play an important role in supercooling and liquid-liquid transitions in many other molecular liquids. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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