The Effect of Temperature on Liquid 1-Methylnaphthalene Structure: An Integrated Diffraction and Simulation Approach

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We are studying asphaltene behavior in multiple solvent environments to investigate the key motives behind polyaromatic hydrocarbon self-aggregation. We have found that 1- methylnaphthalene (1-MN) molecules tend to stack more with parallel alignment when the temperature is increased, despite a more disordered system being expected following a conventional interpretation of entropy. We are presuming that unconventional forces (e.g., forces induced due to shape entropy) are responsible for this behavior. The behavior of increased order with temperature is well-known in hard particle and colloidal systems, but for liquid aromatic solvents, this phenomenon is still unreported. We aim to perform neutron scattering experiments at repeated and additional temperatures to observe if this novel trend in the fluid aromatic system is real and our preliminary investigations are valid.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1900133-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/101384508
Provenance
Creator Dr Tom Headen; Dr Michael Hoepfner; Mr K M Rizwanur Rahman
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
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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Discipline Chemistry; Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-02-22T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-02-27T14:19:49Z