Unusual Interfacial Freezing Phenomena in Hexacontane/Silica Composites
Unusual Interfacial Freezing Phenomena in Hexacontane/Silica Composites
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六烷/二氧化硅复合材料中异常的界面冻结现象
DOI:
10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b00603
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Wang Dujin
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作者:
Gao Xia;Su Yunlan;Zhao Weiwei;Qian Qingyun;Chen Xin;Wittenbrink Robert;Wang Dujin
The crystallization behaviors ofn-hexacontane (C60H122)/Stöber silica (SiO2) composites with various compositions were investigated by a combination of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), solid-state13C nuclear magnetic resonance (solid-state13C NMR), and proton NMR relaxation experiments. By means of DSC, C60H122molecules in C60H122/silica composites were observed to be involved in the interfacial freezing not present in the free bulk C60H122. The orientation of C60H122molecules, being preferentially normal to silica surface, was confirmed by grazing incidence X-ray diffraction experiments on thinn-hexacontane film adsorbed on the silicon wafer with a native SiO2layer. Inferred from the solid13C NMR data, the interfacial monolayer is in orthorhombic phase with certain chain disorders. It is speculated that the “interfacial freezing” of C60H122formed in the presence of silica particles is driven by the combination of the strong attraction between the molecules and the enhanced number of interfacial molecules on the silica surface.