dynamic and configurational approach to the glass transition by nanoscale cooperativity动态和构型方法,纳米级协同的玻璃化转变.pdfVIP

Open Journal of Biophysics, 2012, 2, 88-100 /10.4236/ojbiphy.2012.23012 Published Online July 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojbiphy) Dynamic and Configurational Approach to the Glass Transition by Nanoscale Cooperativity G. Romeo Physics Department and INFM, Messina University, Messina, Italy Email: gio.romeo@tiscali.it Received August 25, 2011; revised September 27, 2011; accepted October 9, 2011 ABSTRACT Here we examine the findings obtained for disaccharide/water mixtures near glass transition that involves cooperative relaxation features on kinetic by viscosity and on thermodynamic behaviour by neutron scattering. Then to address co- operative phenomena that mitigate the Debye-Waller behaviour we invoke Adam-Gibbs’ idea of a cooperative rear- ranging region. Neutron results suggest that the excess mean square displacement behaves as free volume and is closely connected to an elementary step of the structural relaxation. Then viscosity data evidence a breakdown of the Ein- stein-Debye relation, decoupling attributed to the intermolecular cooperativity. Keywords: Glass-Forming; Neutron Scattering; Einstein-Debye’s Breakdown; Cooperative Rearranging Region 1. Introduction entation of the OH groups at some carbon atom in the ring itself. The microscopic origin of the protective action of treha- Experimentalists, to get some insight into the molecu- lose on cells and tissues from stress conditions such as