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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gabriel, Jan
• Pabst, Florian
• Helbling, Andreas
• Böhmer, Till
• Blochowicz, Thomas

Titel

Nature of the Debye-Process in Monohydroxy Alcohols: 5-Methyl-2-Hexanol Investigated by Depolarized Light Scattering and Dielectric Spectroscopy

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2018-07, Vol.121 (3), p.035501-035501, Article 035501

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

PROLA

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The slow Debye-like relaxation in the dielectric spectra of monohydroxy alcohols is a matter of long-standing debate. In the present Letter, we probe reorientational dynamics of 5-methyl-2-hexanol with dielectric spectroscopy and depolarized dynamic light scattering (DDLS) in the supercooled regime. While in a previous study of a primary alcohol no indication of the Debye peak in the DDLS spectra was found, we now for the first time report clear evidence of a Debye contribution in a monoalcohol in DDLS. A quantitative comparison between the dielectric and DDLS manifestation of the Debye peak reveals that while the dielectric Debye process represents fluctuations in the end-to-end vector dipole moment of the transient chains, its occurrence in DDLS shows a more local signature and is related to residual correlations that occur due to a slight anisotropy of the α relaxation caused by the chain formation.