Influence of substrate temperature on the stability of glasses prepared by vapor deposition
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)
Physical vapor deposition of indomethacin (IMC) was used to prepare glasses with unusual thermodynamic and kinetic stability. By varying the substrate temperature during the deposition from 190 K to the glass transition temperature (T{sub g}=315 K), it was determined that depositions near 0.85T{sub g} (265 K) resulted in the most stable IMC glasses regardless of substrate. Differential scanning calorimetry of samples deposited at 265 K indicated that the enthalpy was 8 J/g less than the ordinary glass prepared by cooling the liquid, corresponding to a 20 K reduction in the fictive temperature. Deposition at 265 K also resulted in the greatest kinetic stability, as indicated by the highest onset temperature. The most stable vapor-deposited IMC glasses had thermodynamic stabilities equivalent to ordinary glasses aged at 295 K for 7 months. We attribute the creation of stable IMC glasses via vapor deposition to enhanced surface mobility. At substrate temperatures near 0.6T{sub g}, this mobility is diminished or absent, resulting in low stability, vapor-deposited glasses.
- OSTI ID:
- 21024339
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 127, Issue 15; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2789438; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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