Brillouin spectral line shapes of n‐pentanol have been measured from −75.5 °C (close to the melting point) up to 115 °C (close to the boiling point) using a grating monochromator. The instrument, owing to its very high resolution, contrast, and free spectral range, has been preferred to the usually employed Fabry–Perot interferometer. The spectra, fitted with a single relaxation generalized hydrodynamic theory, support the existence of a high frequency relaxation process with an activation energy of about 9 KJ/mol. This relaxation process, which should be related to isomeric rotational relaxation, is well separated at low temperature from the structural relaxation observed at lower frequencies in ultrasonic experiments.
High frequency viscous relaxation from the Brillouin spectra of n-pentanol / E., Di Fabrizio; V., Mazzacurati; M., Nardone; Nucara, Alessandro; Ruocco, Giancarlo; G., Signorelli. - In: THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0021-9606. - 93:(1990), p. 7751. [10.1063/1.459354]
High frequency viscous relaxation from the Brillouin spectra of n-pentanol
NUCARA, Alessandro;RUOCCO, Giancarlo;
1990
Abstract
Brillouin spectral line shapes of n‐pentanol have been measured from −75.5 °C (close to the melting point) up to 115 °C (close to the boiling point) using a grating monochromator. The instrument, owing to its very high resolution, contrast, and free spectral range, has been preferred to the usually employed Fabry–Perot interferometer. The spectra, fitted with a single relaxation generalized hydrodynamic theory, support the existence of a high frequency relaxation process with an activation energy of about 9 KJ/mol. This relaxation process, which should be related to isomeric rotational relaxation, is well separated at low temperature from the structural relaxation observed at lower frequencies in ultrasonic experiments.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
