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Justin Rajesh Rajian1, Wei Huang, Ranko Richert
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, USA.
Abstract:
The translational diffusion of rubrene in the fragile molecular glass former, sucrose benzoate (SB) (fragility index m approximately 94), has been studied from T(g)+6 K to T(g)+71 K(T(g)=337 K) by using the technique of holographic fluorescence recovery after photobleaching. In the temperature range of the measurements, the translational relaxation functions were observed to decay exponentially, indicating that Fick's law of diffusion governs the translational motion of rubrene in sucrose benzoate. The value of the translational diffusion coefficient D(T) obtained from the 1e time of the translational relaxation function varied from 5.3 x 10(-15) cm2 s(-1) at 343 K to 5.0x10(-9) cm2 s(-1) at 408 K. The temperature dependence of D(T) for diffusion of rubrene in SB is compared with that of the viscosity and the dielectric relaxation time tau(D) of SB. The temperature dependence of D(T) is weaker than that of Teta for T<1.2T(g) but tracks the reciprocal of the dielectric relaxation time 1tau(D) for 1.05T(g)
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