Structural origin of anomalous relaxation behaviour in alcohol-water mixtures

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In recent dielectric and calorimetric studies of some alcohol-water mixtures we have discovered unexpected and unexplained relaxation behaviours. Our aim with this proposal is to find structural explanations for these dynamical behaviours. In the case of glycerol-water and xylitol-water mixtures we would like to understand why two glass transition (Tg) temperatures are obtained in the intermediate or high water concentration range. For small amounts of added non-dissolvable water to 2-ethyl-1-hexanol we aim to investigate the size and shape of the water clusters in order to understand an exceptionally slow dielectric relaxation process. This proposal is central, and therefore of high importance, for the PhD student Khalid Elamin¿s thesis work on alcohol-water mixtures.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088264
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088264
Provenance
Creator Professor Jan Swenson; Mr Khalid Elamin; Dr Helen Jansson
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-11-28T09:40:29Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-11-30T17:06:53Z