Deuteron nuclear magnetic resonance and dielectric studies of molecular reorientation and charge transport in succinonitrile-glutaronitrile plastic crystals

Autor: Sofiane Lansab, Philipp Münzner, Herbert Zimmermann, Roland Böhmer
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids: X, Vol 14, Iss , Pp 100097- (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2590-1591
DOI: 10.1016/j.nocx.2022.100097
Popis: Plastic crystals are currently discussed as matrices for highly conducting materials. Among them, mixtures based on succinonitrile (SN) have received particular attention. Long ago, Austen Angell [J. Non-Cryst. Solids 131–133 (1991) 13] has shown that in mixtures with glutaronitrile (GN), the plastic phase of SN can deeply be supercooled. Here, a mixture of 60% SN – featuring deuterated methylene groups – and 40% GN is studied using 2H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), thus allowing selective access to the reorientational dynamics of SN. These dynamics agree with that inferred for partially deuterated SN-GN from dielectric spectroscopy which also reveal that a significant H/D isotope effect is absent. Additionally, in the liquid and slightly below the transition to the plastically crystalline state, mixtures of 60% SN and 40% GN are studied using field-gradient NMR diffusometry as well as rotational viscometry.
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