Intramicellar glass transition and liquid dynamics in soft confinement

Li Min Wang; Fang He; Ranko Richert

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.095701

Intramicellar glass transition and liquid dynamics in soft confinement

Li Min Wang, Fang He, Ranko Richert

Molecular Sciences, School of (SMS)

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Abstract

The dynamics of viscous propylene glycol (PG) within the droplets of 4.6 nm diameter suspended in a more fluid environment was explored. The soft confinement was achieved by microemulsions of the water-in-oil type, where PG was the intramicellar compound. A composition range in which the self-assembled structures remained stable near the glass transition temperature T_g of PG at 160 K. The results show that the dynamics of PG in soft confinement is accelerated, whereas the usual hard confinement led to frustrated relaxation of PG near its T_g.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	095701
Pages (from-to)	095701-1-095701-4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	92
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.095701
State	Published - Mar 5 2004

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