It is shown that the Debye-Waller factor (DW), a measure of the cage dynamics, is contributed by free-volume in o-terphenyl (OTP) and glycerol. An elementary ansatz provides an alternative way to get the reduced OW from Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS). The ansatz supports the scaling of the slow relaxation with the fast caged dynamics over about ten decades in relaxation times in OTP and glycerol. Both PALS and neutron scattering experiments show that, in order to evidence the scaling, the observation times must be shorter than the time scales of the relaxation processes. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Universal scaling between structural relaxation and caged dynamics in glass-forming systems: Free volume and time scales
LEPORINI, DINO
2011-01-01
Abstract
It is shown that the Debye-Waller factor (DW), a measure of the cage dynamics, is contributed by free-volume in o-terphenyl (OTP) and glycerol. An elementary ansatz provides an alternative way to get the reduced OW from Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS). The ansatz supports the scaling of the slow relaxation with the fast caged dynamics over about ten decades in relaxation times in OTP and glycerol. Both PALS and neutron scattering experiments show that, in order to evidence the scaling, the observation times must be shorter than the time scales of the relaxation processes. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.File in questo prodotto:
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