Understanding the difference in the stretched structural relaxations probed by dielectric and enthalpic studies of glass forming substances

Autor: Xu-Dong Li, Xiao Jin, Zijing Li, Yingdan Liu, Shidong Feng, Li-Min Wang
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The Journal of Chemical Physics. 157:184501
ISSN: 1089-7690
0021-9606
DOI: 10.1063/5.0122186
Popis: We investigated the stretched dynamics of the structural relaxation in molecular glass formers by using dielectric and thermal (or enthalpic) relaxations. The dielectric stretching exponents β die are determined by the Havriliak–Negami function, while the enthalpic β TNMH is quantified by using the Tool–Narayanaswamy–Moynihan–Hodge formalism. We found β TNMH is anticorrelated with the degree of freedom, a molecule addressed by the concept of beads. Referring to the reported relation of β die to the dipole moment μ, we proposed a combined parameter of μ2* beads, which can rationalize the difference in stretching exponents obtained by dielectric and enthalpic relaxations. For the majority of glass-forming molecules, the difference is trivial, but for those molecules with both unusually high dipole moments and flexibility, a large difference is obvious. The interplay of the degree of freedom and dielectric dipole–dipole interaction in molecular dynamics is addressed.
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