Vibrational dynamics in water-methanol solid solutions investigated through incoherent INS

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The experiment here proposed concerns the study of the vibrational properties of liquid water-methanol mixtures in the solid phase as a function of the concentration, and exploiting selective isotopic substitution. We aim at providing additional insight into the clustering dynamics suggested by previous neutron diffraction and x-ray emission spectroscopy experiments, whose results put under strong discussion the long time accepted ¿iceberg model¿. We intend to focus here on water-methanol mixtures, where the use of a small amphiphilic molecule can be employed as model system to understand the interactions between amphiphilic groups belonging to much larger molecules, and water. We expect that this experiment will provide unique information on the way the local environment of methanol molecules (in particular H-bonded ones) changes with water concentration.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.49917638
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/49917638
Provenance
Creator Dr Miguel Angel Gonzalez; Dr Ferdinando Formisano; Dr Daniele Colognesi; Dr Monica Jimenez-Ruiz; Mr Valentino Russo; Dr Livia Bove; Dr Milva Celli; Dr Simone De Panfilis
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-05-18T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-05-23T23:00:00Z