Microscopic investigation of the Johari-Goldstein relaxation in cumene: Insights on the mosaic structure in a van der Waals liquid.
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| Title: | Microscopic investigation of the Johari-Goldstein relaxation in cumene: Insights on the mosaic structure in a van der Waals liquid. |
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| Authors: | Caporaletti, Federico1,2 (AUTHOR) federico.caporaletti@ulb.be, Capaccioli, Simone3,4 (AUTHOR), Bessas, Dimitrios5 (AUTHOR), Chumakov, Aleksander I.5 (AUTHOR), Martinelli, Alessandro6 (AUTHOR), Monaco, Giulio1,6 (AUTHOR) giulio.monaco@unipd.it |
| Source: | Journal of Molecular Liquids. Aug2023, Vol. 383, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. |
| Subjects: | Cumene, Supercooled liquids, Molecular interactions, Investigation reports, Liquids, Inelastic scattering |
| Abstract: | The Johari-Goldstein (β J G) relaxation anticipates in time, and is closely connected to, the structural relaxation in deeply supercooled liquids. Probing its microscopic properties is a crucial step for a complete understanding of the glass-transition. We here report the investigation of the van der Waals glass-former cumene using time-domain interferometry, a technique able to probe microscopic density fluctuations at the spatial and temporal scales relevant for the β J G -relaxation. We find that the molecules participating in it undergo a restricted motion, though sufficient to induce local, cage-breaking events at the characteristic time-scale for molecular re-orientations. A detailed characterization of the relaxation strength, i.e. the fraction of molecules involved in the relaxation process, shows that such molecules are connected in a percolating cluster which, above the glass-transition temperature, T g , is weakly dependent on temperature. Our results confirm thus previous observations of a mosaic structure associated to the β J G -relaxation in the supercooled state, and provide additional information on its temperature evolution above the glass-transition temperature. We conclude that the observed microscopic properties of the β J G -relaxation, and thus of the associated mosaic structure, are generic and independent of the molecular interaction potential. In addition, we show that, while the dynamics within the percolating cluster becomes progressively slower on approaching T g , the fraction of the molecules involved in cage-breaking events within the β J G -relaxation is not affected by temperature. • The Johari-Goldstein relaxation of cumene is studied by nuclear γ -resonance time-domain interferometry. • The microscopic properties of the Johari-Goldstein relaxation are shown to be independent of the interaction potential. • The "mosaic structure" associated to the Johari-Goldstein relaxation is weakly dependent on temperature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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