Structure and phase transitions

In phase I, there is rotational and translational disorder of H2O and species, i.e. a quasi-liquid state of the water layer, with considerable orientational disorder of phosphate tetrahedra. The spectroscopic manifestation of such a state is the presence of a structureless broad absorption in the OH stretching and HjO and HsO librational region, i.e. individual contributions of protonic species are smeared out while the distinction between HjO and is observed only in the OH bending region. In 

The arsenate analogue, H3OUO2ASO4.3H2O shows similar features as shown by a NMR study below 170 K the total second moment is characteristic of a rigid network, between 170 and 200 K a reorientation of water and oxonium molecules takes place and above 270 K diffusion of protonic species is observed. The transition to the superionic tetragonal phase occurs at 300 K (see Chapter 31 for a more complete description). Microwave dielectric relaxation study of HUP gives similar conclusions and the phase transition temperatures are almost unchanged by H/D substitution (see p. 398). 

In Section 5.3.4, we demonstrated that fluids confined to nanoscopic volumes are highly inhomogeneous in that they form molecular strata. The most direct way of realizing this was through plots of the local density (see 

6) based on the definition olp z) defined in Eq. (5.67). However, because in the current model, the fluid substrate interaction potential is a function of x and z [see Eq. (5.68)], the local density must sdso depend on both (Cartesian) coordinates, which we redefine writing 

If the distance between the substrates is increased even further, another structural change occurs in the fluid. It is illustrated the plot of p (x, z) for s, = 8.2 in Fig. 5.8(c), where the fluid bridge disappeared and only two strata of fluid molecules cling to the strongly attractive portion of the substrate. For example, for jz[ 3.0 smd x = 0, the density is rather low and decreases monotonically toward the center of the confined fluid located at z = 0. The 

At this point it seems worthwhile to investigate in some depth the impact of chemical corrugation on this phase behavior by varying 

However, in the limit — oo the confined fluid becomes increasingly bulk-like on account of the vanishing influence of fluid substrate interactions. Because the bulk phase at the current values of T = 1.0 and p = —11.5 turns out to be a gas, one intuitively expects at least one phase transition from a denser confined fluid at small. s to a lower-density fluid at some charac-teristic larger substrate separation. This transition, known as capillary condensation/evaporation (see also Section 4.2), is, in fact, observed for c, = y around 11.0. 

For larger s = 7.5 [see Fig. 5.8(b)], the structure of the fluid changes significantly. Over the strongly attractive portion of the substrate, the fluid remains stratified. However, the low-density portion has giv i way to an iiihomogeneoiis high-density fluid over the weakly attractive part of the substrate. Cons uently, the interface between hi er- and lower-denaty portions of the confined fluid visible in the plot of p(x,z) in Fig. 5.8(a) has disappeared, and can no longer be seen in Fig. 5.8(b). As the weak portions of the substrate are essmtially repulsive, p (x, z) decreases for jxj 4.0 from the center of the fluid (z = 0) toward the substrate (jz — Sz/2). 

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The discovery of stable, quasi-metallie, radical-cation salts has stimulated many studies. A few studies concerning the metallic nature will be briefly discussed here. Most of the results were obtained with FA2X because of its simple, well-documented structure and phase transition and its relatively high stability. 

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