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The dynamics of propylene glycol (PG) and its oligomers 7-PG and PPG, with \(M_{{\rm W}} = 4000\) (about 70 monomers), confined in a Na-vermiculite clay have been investigated by quasi-elastic neutron scattering and dielectric spectroscopy. The liquids are confined to a single molecular layer between the clay platelets, thus giving a true 2D liquid. The results show that the average relaxation time \(\langle\tau\rangle\), deduced from neutron scattering at a momentum transfer Q of about \(1 \; {\rm {\AA}^{-1}}\), is in perfect agreement with the dielectric \(\alpha\)-relaxation time, although neutron scattering does not only probe the main (\(\alpha\)-) relaxation, but all motions of hydrogens on the experimental time scale. At room temperature \(1/\langle\tau\rangle\) is proportional to Q 2, indicating that the relaxations are mainly due to ordinary translational diffusion. The most unexpected finding is that \(\langle\tau\rangle\) (or the dielectric \(\alpha\)-relaxation time) is almost unaffected by the 2D confinement, in contrast to the dielectrically active normal mode of PPG which is substantially slower in the confinement. Only the 7-mer has a significantly slower segmental translational diffusion in the clay. The results suggest that the interactions to the clay surfaces are weak and that the present 2D confinement has a very small influence on the time scale of all our observed relaxation processes, except the normal-mode relaxation.
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Received: 1 January 2003, Published online: 8 October 2003
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61.25.Em Molecular liquids - 68.35.Ja Surface and interface dynamics and vibrations - 61.12.-q Neutron diffraction and scattering
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Swenson, J., Schwartz, G.A., Bergman, R. et al. Dynamics of propylene glycol and its oligomers confined in clay. Eur. Phys. J. E 12, 179–183 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2003-10033-7
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