Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, volume 13, issue 5, pages 1843-1848

Low-temperature dynamics in amorphous polymers and low-molecular-weight glasses—what is the difference?

Ivan Yu. Eremchev ¹

Yury G. Vainer ^{1, 2}

Andrei V Naumov ^{1, 2}

L Kador ³

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Molecular Spectroscopy Department, Institute for Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow reg., Russia |

Chair of Quantum Optics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Troitsk, Dolgoprudny, Moscow reg., Russia |

Bayreuth Institute of Macromolecular Research (BIMF), University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2011-01-01

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Journal: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

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ISSN: 14639076, 14639084

DOI: 10.1039/c0cp01690j

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Abstract

Numerous experiments have shown that the low-temperature dynamics of a wide variety of disordered solids is qualitatively universal. However, most of these results were obtained with ensemble-averaging techniques which hide the local parameters of the dynamic processes. We used single-molecule (SM) spectroscopy for direct observation of the dynamic processes in disordered solids with different internal structure and chemical composition. The surprising result is that the dynamics of low-molecular-weight glasses and short-chain polymers does not follow, on a microscopic level, the current concept of low-temperature glass dynamics. An extra contribution to the dynamics was detected causing irreproducible jumps and drifts of the SM spectra on timescales between milliseconds and minutes. In most matrices consisting of small molecules and oligomers, the spectral dynamics was so fast that SM spectra could hardly or not at all be recorded and only irregular fluorescence flares were observed. These results provide new mechanistic insight into the behavior of glasses in general: At low temperatures, the local dynamics of disordered solids is not universal but depends on the structure and chemical composition of the material.

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