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Title: Hydrogen bonding and the liquid-to-glass transition in n-propanol at high pressures

Journal Article · · Bulletin of the American Physical Society
OSTI ID:127839
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  1. Univ. of Toledo, OH (United States)

The simple alcohols are a system of interest since they display both hydrogen bonding and a pressure-induced liquid-to-glass transition. The authors have studied both phenomena via Raman scattering from n-propanol at room temperature. High pressures were generated with a miniature Merrill-Bassett diamond anvil cell. Due to hydrogen bonding, the frequency of the O-H stretching mode decreases as the pressure on the sample is increased. The pressure derivative of this mode is a measure of the rate of increase of the degree of hydrogen bonding. A discontinuity in the pressure dependence of the 860 cm{sup {minus}1} mode and other changes in the Raman spectra indicate that the liquid-to-glass transition occurs at about 5.5 GPa.

OSTI ID:
127839
Report Number(s):
CONF-920376-; ISSN 0003-0503; TRN: 95:007049-0102
Journal Information:
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 37, Issue 9; Conference: Meeting of the American Physical Society, Indianapolis, IN (United States), 16-20 Mar 1992; Other Information: PBD: Dec 1992
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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