Grup de Nanomaterials i Microsistemes, Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Grup de Caracterització de Materials, ETSEIB, Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
Sci Rep. 2016 Oct 3;6:34296. doi: 10.1038/srep34296.
Pressure experiments provide a unique opportunity to unravel new insights into glass-forming liquids by exploring its effect on the dynamics of viscous liquids and on the evolution of the glass transition temperature. Here we compare the pressure dependence of the onset of devitrification, T, between two molecular glasses prepared from the same material but with extremely different ambient-pressure kinetic and thermodynamic stabilities. Our data clearly reveal that, while both glasses exhibit different dT/dP values at low pressures, they evolve towards closer calorimetric devitrification temperature and pressure dependence as pressure increases. We tentatively interpret these results from the different densities of the starting materials at room temperature and pressure. Our data shows that at the probed pressures, the relaxation time of the glass into the supercooled liquid is determined by temperature and pressure similarly to the behaviour of liquids, but using stability-dependent parameters.
压力实验提供了一个独特的机会,可以通过探索其对粘性液体动力学的影响以及玻璃化转变温度的演化,来揭示玻璃形成液体的新见解。在这里,我们比较了由相同材料但具有极高环境压力动力学和热力学稳定性的两种分子玻璃的析晶起始温度 T 的压力依赖性。我们的数据清楚地表明,尽管两种玻璃在低压下表现出不同的 dT/dP 值,但随着压力的增加,它们朝着更接近量热析晶温度和压力依赖性的方向发展。我们从室温下起始材料的不同密度来推测这些结果。我们的数据表明,在所研究的压力下,玻璃进入过冷液体的弛豫时间由温度和压力决定,与液体的行为相似,但使用的是依赖于稳定性的参数。