Search results for "Plastic crystal"

Phase transition kinetics and reorientational dynamics of the plastic crystal meta-carborane studied by deuteron NMR

2002

Meta-carborane shows an orientationally disordered, orthorhombic phase which transforms into an ordered monoclinic phase near 170 K and into a quasi-isotropic cubic phase near 280 K. From deuteron magnetization measurements both transitions are found to exhibit a thermal hysteresis and slow transformation kinetics. Furthermore, solid-echo NMR spectra and spin-lattice relaxation times are reported. These results indicate that in the orthorhombic phase the meta-carborane molecules perform a strongly anisotropic motion which is characterized by a temperature dependent amplitude.

Structure, phase transitions and molecular dynamics in ferroelastic crystal pyrrolidinium hexachloroantimonate(V), [C4H8NH2][SbCl6]

2005

Abstract The crystal structure of the pyrrolidinium hexachloroantimonate(V), [C4H8NH2][SbCl6], abbreviated PCA, has been determined by means of X-ray diffraction at 300 and 340 K. The space groups are monoclinic P 2 1 / n (phase III) and orthorhombic Pmnb (phase II), respectively. The crystal undergoes two structural phase transitions: first-order type at 356/329 K (heating/cooling) from phase (I) to (II) and second-order type at 323 K from phase (II) to (III). Dielectric studies suggest the plastic crystals behaviour above 356 K (phase I). Proton spin-lattice relaxation time ( T 1 ) and second moment ( M 2 ) of polycrystalline [C4H8NH2][SbCl6] have been determined at 77–370 K, at 90 and 25…

Transient photoconductivity in a discotic hexagonal plastic crystal

1996

Solid-state polymerization of oxetanes. I. Lattice parameters and packing properties of the monomers

1973

The crystallographic unit cells of melt-crystallized 3,3-bischloromethyloxetane and 3,3-bisbromomethyloxetane were determined by the Weissenberg method. The two isomorphous lattices are triclinic with two molecules in the unit cell. 3,3-Bisfluoromethyloxetane forms plastic crystals in the temperature range between −36°C and +22°C, as shown by differential calorimetry and NMR broad-line spectroscopy. The Debye-Scherrer diagram and the general physical properties indicate the formation of a face-centered cubic lattice. No correlation between the lattice parameters of the monomer and polymer can be found On the basis of these results, the question is raised as to whether a topochemical polymer…

Isostructural phase transition, quasielastic neutron scattering and magnetic resonance studies of a bistable dielectric ion-pair crystal [(CH3)2NH2]2…

2019

We have synthesised and characterised a novel organic–inorganic hybrid crystal, [(CH3)2NH2]2KCr(CN)6. The thermal DSC, TMA, DTG and DTA analyses indicate two solid-to-solid structural phase transitions (PTs). According to the X-ray diffraction experiments, the first PT at 220 K is isostructural, since it does not involve a change of the space group. This transition occurs between the states, where the (CH3)2NH2+ cations are orientationally disordered and ordered (frozen). The other reversible PT at 481 K leads to a melt-like phase similar to the one observed in plastic crystals or polar liquids. Dielectric spectroscopy has been used to characterise the switching properties of the dipole mom…

Computer simulations of a Lennard-Jones model for Ar1—x(N2)x: A prototype system for quadrupolar glasses

1998

Abstract Recent theoretical studies of orientational ordering in pure and diluted nitrogen crystals are summarized. While pure N2 has a first order phase transition from a plastic crystal to a phase with long-range orientational order, dilution with argon atoms leads to a quadrupolar glass phase. Monte Carlo simulations are used to study these phases, considering also the behavior of isolated N2 impurities in Ar crystals. It is shown that a simple model that neglects electrostatic interactions and takes only Lennard-Jones interactions into account can describe already many properties in qualitative agreement with experiment. Even the slow dynamics of the quadrupole moments can be modeled by…

Self-diffusion coefficients in plastic crystals by multiple-pulse NMR in large static field gradients.

1996

Measurements of self-diffusion coefficients in solids with the gradient spin echo technique have until now been limited due to short spin-spin relaxation times. Here we make use of multiple-pulse sequences, which average out the nuclear dipole interaction, to expand the measurable range for macroscopic self-diffusion coefficients by 2 orders of magnitude. By combining multiple-pulse NMR, in our case using the MREV-8 sequence, with a high static gradient we measured the self-diffusion coefficient in a molecular crystal of camphene down to a value of $D\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}3\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}16}{\mathrm{m}}^{2}{\mathrm{s}}^{\en…