Low-frequency molecular relaxations in disordered solids
Low-frequency molecular relaxations in disordered solids
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无序固体中的低频分子弛豫
DOI:
10.1051/jcp/1985820283
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1985
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G. P. Johari
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G. P. Johari
Motions of atoms or molecules in the glassy state of isotropic and anisotropic liquids and in the glass-like state of orientationally disordered crystals can be generally observed by dielectric and mechanical relaxation spectroscopy in the frequency range 10-4 Hz — 107 Hz. These translational and/or rotational diffusions of atoms or molecules in the otherwise rigid matrix of a glass show relaxational characteristics quite different from those associated with the diffusional motion of atoms or molecules whose freezing out causes a liquid to become macroscopically rigid at the glass transition temperature. This availability of localized configurational states (to an ensemble of atoms or molecules) also has a thermodynamic consequence, for an analysis of the heat capacity and entropy of the glassy and disorder frozen-in state of materials shows a substantial nonvibrational contribution to these thermodynamic properties. The number of atomic or molecular groups involved in such motions increases with temperature, but decreases on the physical ageing of a glass. The effect of densification on these motions during the physical ageing of a glass differs from that of compression. The existence of these localized motions is likely to be due to the presence of loosely packed regions, caused by the freezing-in of the density fluctuations at the glass transition temperature which leads to a heterogeneous structure at a molecular level in a glass.