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Spectroscopy, or the study of the interaction of light with matter, has become one of the major tools of the natural and physical sciences during this century. As the wavelength of the radiation is varied across the electromagnetic spectrum, characteristic properties of atoms, molecules, liquids and solids are probed. In the... 

The solidity of gel electrolytes results from chain entanglements. At high temperatures they flow like liquids, but on cooling they show a small increase in the shear modulus at temperatures well above T. This is the liquid-to-rubber transition. The values of shear modulus and viscosity for rubbery solids are considerably lower than those for glass forming liquids at an equivalent structural relaxation time. The local or microscopic viscosity relaxation time of the rubbery material, which is reflected in the 7], obeys a VTF equation with a pre-exponential factor equivalent to that for small-molecule liquids. Above the liquid-to-rubber transition, the VTF equation is also obeyed but the pre-exponential term for viscosity is much larger than is typical for small-molecule liquids and is dependent on the polymer molecular weight. 

DYNAMICS OF MATERIALS AT THE NANOSCALE SMALL-MOLECULE LIQUIDS AND POLYMER FILMS... 

In addition to simple particle generation, the miniemulsion offers great opportunity for the encapsulation of small molecules, liquids, and solids in polymeric matrices or shells to generate functional hybrid nanomaterials for a wide variety of applications. 

The bulk modulus 1/p and Young s modulus E are related through the equation at the bottom of Fig. 4.144. The symbol a represents Poisson s ratio, the linear, lateral contraction divided by the linear extension in a tensile experiment. One can compute that a value of 0.5 for Poisson s ratio leads to a constant volume on extension, a situation often achieved in rubbery materials. Most crystals and glasses have a Poisson s ratio between 0.2 and 0.35. Note that a value of o close to 0.5 makes Young s modulus much smaller than the bulk modulus, a case realized by rubbery macromolecules which can change their shape on extension at constant volume (see Sect. 4.6.5). The bulk modulus of small-molecule liquids and solids decreases normally with increasing temperature, while increasing pressure causes an increase. 

One conclusion that we can draw from all these various theoretical approaches, irrespective of the differences in detail, is that the surface tensions of polymer melts are not strongly influenced by their polymeric character. Surface tension is largely determined by the bulk FT behaviour of the fluid the long-chain nature of polymers does not have a strong influence on their bulk compressibility, so it is not surprising that polymer surface tensions are similar in magnitude to the surface tensions of analagous small-molecule liquids and that the dependence on relative molecular mass is weak. 

Fifteen years ago Roberto Car of Princeton Uiuversity and Michele Parrinello of Max Planck Institute introduced a method that revolutionized electronic structure calculations for molecules, liquids and solids. In addition, this method called the Car-Parrinello Method also opened the field of quantum molecular dynamics for physicists. The Car-Parrinello algorithm allows for rigorous evaluation of molecular dynamics in clusters, solids and surfaces. Ursula Rothlisberger, a former member of the Parrinello s group, reviews the formations of the methods in its most common implementations in chapter two. She provides a munber of examples of applications of this powerful technique. Also, predictions of future directions of the methods are given in her chapter. 

Chapter 5 considers translation and rotation by solvent molecules in small-molecule liquids and polymer solutions. Correlations between solution properties are already more complex than might have been expected. At small rj, the diffusion coefficient and equivalent conductance of small-molecule probes in simple liquids scale as At larger rj, D and A are instead The boundary between small and large t] seen in the literature is uniformly near 5 cP. It is unclear why this particular value of r should not be system-specific. In contrast to smaU-molecule probes, mesoscopic probes such as polystyrene latex spheres in potentially highly viscous mixed solvents such as water glycerol retain D T/ri behavior over three or more orders of magnitude in rj. 

This article describes the current capabilities for predicting materials properties using atomistic computational approaches. The focus is on inorganic materials including metals, semiconductors, and insulators in the form of bulk solids, surfaces, and interfaces. Properties of isolated molecules, liquids. and organic polymers are treated as separate entries. Besides a computational approach based on physical laws, materials properties can also be predicted by empirical rules and statistical correlations between chemical composition, bonding topology, and macroscopic properties. These very useful and quick approaches, which include so-called quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) methods, are covered in other entries of this encyclopedia (see Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (QSPR)). 

One may consider a molecule in the surface region as being in a state intermediate between that in the vapor phase and that in the liquid. Skapski [11] has made the following simplified analysis. Considering only nearest-neighbor interactions, if n, and denote the number of nearest neighbors in the interior of the liquid and the surface region, respectively, then, per molecule... 

It must also be realized that this thin surface region is in a very turbulent state. Since the liquid is in equilibrium with its vapor, then, clearly, there is a two-way and balanced traffic of molecules hitting and condensing on the surface from the vapor phase and of molecules evaporating from the surface into the vapor phase. From the gas kinetic theory, the number of moles striking 1 cm of surface per second is... 

Fortunately, the worst broadening interactions are also removed naturally in most liquids and solutions, or at least greatly reduced in their effect, by the tumbling motions of the molecules, for many of the broadening... 

Figure Bl.22.8. Sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectra in the C N stretching region from the air/aqueous acetonitrile interfaces of two solutions with different concentrations. The solid curve is the IR transmission spectrum of neat bulk CH CN, provided here for reference. The polar acetonitrile molecules adopt a specific orientation in the air/water interface with a tilt angle that changes with changing concentration, from 40° from the surface nonnal in dilute solutions (molar fractions less than 0.07) to 70° at higher concentrations. This change is manifested here by the shift in the C N stretching frequency seen by SFG [ ]. SFG is one of the very few teclnhques capable of probing liquid/gas, liquid/liquid, and even liquid/solid interfaces.

The label liquid crystal seems to be a contradiction in tenns since a crystal cannot be liquid. However, tire tenn refers to a phase fonned between a crystal and a liquid, witli a degree of order intennediate between tire molecular disorder of a liquid and tire regular stmcture of a crystal. Wlrat we mean by order here needs to be defined carefully. The most important property of liquid crystal phases is tliat tire molecules have long-range orientational order. For tliis to be possible tire molecules must be anisotropic, whetlier tliis results from a rodlike or disclike shape. 

In rare gas crystals [77] and liquids [78], diatomic molecule vibrational and vibronic relaxation have been studied. In crystals, VER occurs by multiphonon emission. Everything else held constant, the VER rate should decrease exponentially with the number of emitted phonons (exponential gap law) [79, 80] The number of emitted phonons scales as, and should be close to, the ratio O/mQ, where is the Debye frequency. A possible complication is the perturbation of the local phonon density of states by the diatomic molecule guest [77]. 

The range of systems that have been studied by force field methods is extremely varied. Some force fields liave been developed to study just one atomic or molecular sp>ecies under a wider range of conditions. For example, the chlorine model of Rodger, Stone and TUdesley [Rodger et al 1988] can be used to study the solid, liquid and gaseous phases. This is an anisotropic site model, in which the interaction between a pair of sites on two molecules dep>ends not only upon the separation between the sites (as in an isotropic model such as the Lennard-Jones model) but also upon the orientation of the site-site vector with resp>ect to the bond vectors of the two molecules. The model includes an electrostatic component which contciins dipwle-dipole, dipole-quadrupole and quadrupole-quadrupole terms, and the van der Waals contribution is modelled using a Buckingham-like function. 

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