Turton, D.A., Hunger, J., Stoppa, A., Thoman, A., Candelaresi, M., Hefter, G., Walther, M., Buchner, R. and Wynne, K. (2011) Rattling the cage: Micro- to mesoscopic structure in liquids as simple as argon and as complicated as water. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 159(1), pp. 2-8. (doi: 10.1016/j.molliq.2010.04.005)
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Abstract
The water molecule has the convenient property that its molecular polarizability tensor is nearly isotropic while its dipole moment is large. As a result, the low-frequency anisotropic Raman spectrum of liquid water is mostly collision-induced and therefore reports primarily translational motions while the far-infrared (terahertz) and dielectric spectrum is dominated by rotational modes. Atomic and globular–molecular liquids have a zero dipole moment as well as an isotropic polarizability tensor. These spectrum-simplifying properties were exploited in a study of a number of liquids and solutions using ultrafast optical Kerr-effect (OKE) spectroscopy combined with dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS), terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS), and terahertz field-induced second-harmonic generation (TFISH) spectroscopy. For room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs), liquid water, aqueous salt solutions, noble gas liquids, and globular–molecular liquids it was found that, in each case, surprising structure and/or inhomogeneity is observed, ranging from mesoscopic clustering in RTILs to stretched-exponential dynamics in the noble gas liquids. For aqueous electrolyte solutions it is shown that the viscosity, normally described by the Jones–Dole expression, can be explained in terms of a jamming transition, a concept borrowed from soft condensed matter studies of glass transitions in colloidal suspensions.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Wynne, Professor Klaas |
| Authors: | Turton, D.A., Hunger, J., Stoppa, A., Thoman, A., Candelaresi, M., Hefter, G., Walther, M., Buchner, R., and Wynne, K. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Chemistry |
| Journal Name: | Journal of Molecular Liquids |
| Publisher: | Elsevier B.V. |
| ISSN: | 0167-7322 |
| ISSN (Online): | 0167-7322 |
| Published Online: | 16 April 2010 |
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