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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 68: Glasses and Glass Transition (joint session CPP/ DF/ DY)

DY 68.3: Talk

Friday, March 20, 2015, 10:00–10:15, C 243

Dielectric spectroscopy on glycerol and water confined in metal-organic frameworks — •Jonas Fischer¹, Pit Sippel¹, Peter Lunkenheimer¹, Dmytro Denysenko², Dirk Volkmer², and Alois Loidl¹ — ¹Experimental Physics V, University of Augsburg, Germany — ²Chair of Solid State and Material Chemistry, University of Augsburg, Germany

Approaching the glass transition, the slowing down of molecular dynamics generally proceeds much stronger than expected for thermally activated motions. This can be ascribed to a temperature-dependent activation energy arising from the cooperative motion of increasing numbers of molecules at low temperatures [1]. The number of correlated molecules can be controlled by confining the glass-forming liquid in small pores. Previously, glass formers have been confined in porous glasses, zeolites and other silicates [2]. Recently, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have become available. This class of porous coordination polymers consists of metal-containing units and organic linkers. MOFs are tunable in many regards [3], thus allowing confinement in pores of different inner surfaces and varying sizes. Here, we present broadband dielectric spectroscopy data of glycerol and water confined in different MOFs, of the MFU-type [4]. It is shown that MOFs are well-suited for the measurement of confined liquids.
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