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Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers and Characterization of Their Diffusive Motion in the Melt State at the Single Molecule Level
Published on: September 26, 2016
Analysis of the effect of translation-rotation coupling on diffusion along the molecular axes
A Idrissi1, P Damay, S Krishtal
1Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Infrarouge et Raman (UMR CNRS A8516), Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Lasers et Applications, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.
Abstract:
The analysis of the microscopic diffusion processes of CO(2) and H(2)O in the coordinate system defined by the molecular orientation allows a new criterion to be introduced which provides information on the short and long time behavior of the rotation-translation coupling as well as to quantify the strength of this coupling. We discuss the general conditions under which this affects the translation diffusion "seen" by the molecule along its molecular axes. The results show that the translation-rotation coupling is correlated to the local environment in shaping the longitudinal and transversal translation dynamics of a molecule at a microscopic level.
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