S. Murthy, M. Tyagi
Aug 8, 2002
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Journal of Chemical Physics
Abstract
We have critically examined the possibility of the existence of yet another process (often referred to as process II in the literature) of much smaller magnitude on the high frequency side in the case of 2-ethyl-1-hexanol and 4-methyl-3-heptanol using the dielectric relaxation technique. We have also studied the mixtures of 2-ethyl-1-hexanol with nonpolar methylcyclohexane and a mixture of 1-bromobutane in 4-methyl-3-heptanol for this purpose. In addition, the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) has been used to study the structural relaxation in the vicinity of the glass transition temperature using the Tool–Narayanaswami–Moynihan procedure as discussed by Sartor et al. [J. Phys. Chem. 100, 6801 (1996)]. Our results show the presence of a clear process II on the higher frequency side whose freezing-out corresponds to the glass transition event at Tg in the DSC studies. It is suggested that process II is associated with free alcohol molecules and is connected to the structural relaxation in alcohols. ...