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  • polyamorphism in vapor deposited 2 Methyltetrahydrofuran a broadband dielectric relaxation study
    Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021
    Co-Authors: Jan Philipp Gabriel, Birte Riechers, Anthony Guiseppielie, M D Ediger, Erik Thoms, Ranko Richert
    Abstract:

    Depositing a simple organic molecular glass-former 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran (MTHF) onto an interdigitated electrode device via physical vapor deposition gives rise to an unexpected variety of states, as revealed by dielectric spectroscopy. Different preparation parameters, such as deposition temperature, deposition rate, and annealing conditions, lead, on the one hand, to an ultrastable glass and, on the other hand, to a continuum of newfound further states. Deposition below the glass transition temperature of MTHF leads to loss profiles with shape parameters and peak frequencies that differ from those of the known bulk MTHF. These loss spectra also reveal an additional process with Arrhenius-like temperature dependence, which can be more than four decades slower than the main structural relaxation peak. At a given temperature, the time constants of MTHF deposited between 120 K and 127 K span a range of more than three decades and their temperature dependencies change from strong to fragile behavior. This polyamorphism involves at least three distinct states, each persisting for a duration many orders of magnitude above the dielectric relaxation time. These results represent a significant expansion of a previous dielectric study on vapor deposited MTHF [B. Riechers et al., J. Chem. Phys. 150, 214502 (2019)]. Plastic crystal states and the effects of weak hydrogen bonding are discussed as structural features that could explain these unusual states.

  • ultrastable and polyamorphic states of vapor deposited 2 Methyltetrahydrofuran
    Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019
    Co-Authors: Birte Riechers, Anthony Guiseppielie, M D Ediger, Ranko Richert
    Abstract:

    This work reports results gained from dielectric spectroscopy on the organic molecular glass-former 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran (MTHF), which was deposited onto an interdigitated electrode device by physical vapor deposition. By a suitable selection of preparation parameters (deposition temperature, deposition rate, and annealing conditions), various states of MTHF could be created: ultrastable glass, a liquid state with unusual dielectric properties, or the ordinary liquid state as obtained by supercooling. Observations on kinetic stability as well as on the suppression of dielectric loss in the ultrastable state resemble previous findings for other molecular glass-formers. Remarkably, after annealing just above Tg, all vapor-deposited films of MTHF display a static dielectric constant in the liquid state (es) that is up to a factor of two below that of the ordinary bulk liquid. A structural transition to the ordinary liquid-cooled state of MTHF occurs at temperatures far above its conventional Tg, indicative of polyamorphism: the formation of an unusual structure that is achieved by physical vapor deposition and that differs from the ordinary liquid state obtained by supercooling. The present results also reveal that the dielectric constant of the as deposited glass (e∞) is reduced to practically the value of the squared refractive index, n2.

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  • photophysics of nile red in solution steady state spectroscopy
    Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2000
    Co-Authors: Nagwa Ghoneim
    Abstract:

    Abstract Spectroscopic properties of Nile red (NR) in organic solvents, binary solvent mixtures have been studied. Remarkable shifts in the emission band positions have been observed as a function of the polarity of the medium. In solvent mixtures, these shifts can be explained by the process of specific solvation known as dielectric enrichment. The displacement of the fluorescence band was also measured as a function of temperature to obtain the thermochromic shifts (15 cm−1 K−1 in Methyltetrahydrofuran and 13.8 cm−1 K−1 in butanol). Excited state dipole moments were calculated from these shifts.

  • photophysics of nile red in solution steady state spectroscopy
    Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2000
    Co-Authors: Nagwa Ghoneim
    Abstract:

    Abstract Spectroscopic properties of Nile red (NR) in organic solvents, binary solvent mixtures have been studied. Remarkable shifts in the emission band positions have been observed as a function of the polarity of the medium. In solvent mixtures, these shifts can be explained by the process of specific solvation known as dielectric enrichment. The displacement of the fluorescence band was also measured as a function of temperature to obtain the thermochromic shifts (15 cm−1 K−1 in Methyltetrahydrofuran and 13.8 cm−1 K−1 in butanol). Excited state dipole moments were calculated from these shifts.

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  • polyamorphism in vapor deposited 2 Methyltetrahydrofuran a broadband dielectric relaxation study
    Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021
    Co-Authors: Jan Philipp Gabriel, Birte Riechers, Anthony Guiseppielie, M D Ediger, Erik Thoms, Ranko Richert
    Abstract:

    Depositing a simple organic molecular glass-former 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran (MTHF) onto an interdigitated electrode device via physical vapor deposition gives rise to an unexpected variety of states, as revealed by dielectric spectroscopy. Different preparation parameters, such as deposition temperature, deposition rate, and annealing conditions, lead, on the one hand, to an ultrastable glass and, on the other hand, to a continuum of newfound further states. Deposition below the glass transition temperature of MTHF leads to loss profiles with shape parameters and peak frequencies that differ from those of the known bulk MTHF. These loss spectra also reveal an additional process with Arrhenius-like temperature dependence, which can be more than four decades slower than the main structural relaxation peak. At a given temperature, the time constants of MTHF deposited between 120 K and 127 K span a range of more than three decades and their temperature dependencies change from strong to fragile behavior. This polyamorphism involves at least three distinct states, each persisting for a duration many orders of magnitude above the dielectric relaxation time. These results represent a significant expansion of a previous dielectric study on vapor deposited MTHF [B. Riechers et al., J. Chem. Phys. 150, 214502 (2019)]. Plastic crystal states and the effects of weak hydrogen bonding are discussed as structural features that could explain these unusual states.

  • ultrastable and polyamorphic states of vapor deposited 2 Methyltetrahydrofuran
    Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019
    Co-Authors: Birte Riechers, Anthony Guiseppielie, M D Ediger, Ranko Richert
    Abstract:

    This work reports results gained from dielectric spectroscopy on the organic molecular glass-former 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran (MTHF), which was deposited onto an interdigitated electrode device by physical vapor deposition. By a suitable selection of preparation parameters (deposition temperature, deposition rate, and annealing conditions), various states of MTHF could be created: ultrastable glass, a liquid state with unusual dielectric properties, or the ordinary liquid state as obtained by supercooling. Observations on kinetic stability as well as on the suppression of dielectric loss in the ultrastable state resemble previous findings for other molecular glass-formers. Remarkably, after annealing just above Tg, all vapor-deposited films of MTHF display a static dielectric constant in the liquid state (es) that is up to a factor of two below that of the ordinary bulk liquid. A structural transition to the ordinary liquid-cooled state of MTHF occurs at temperatures far above its conventional Tg, indicative of polyamorphism: the formation of an unusual structure that is achieved by physical vapor deposition and that differs from the ordinary liquid state obtained by supercooling. The present results also reveal that the dielectric constant of the as deposited glass (e∞) is reduced to practically the value of the squared refractive index, n2.