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Published on: September 30, 2014
Unusual dielectric strength of Debye relaxation in monohydroxy alcohols upon mixing
Hongxiang Gong1, Zeming Chen, Dongyang Bi
1State Key Lab of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, and College of Materials Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, 066004 China.
Abstract:
The dielectric strength of the Debye relaxation in the binary mixtures of two isomeric monohydroxy alcohols, 2-ethyl-1-butanol (2E1B) and 4-methyl-2-pentanol (4M2P), is studied at low temperature near glass transition. Enhanced dielectric strength is exhibited in the mixtures, remarkably different from the mixing behaviors of the structural (α-) relaxation of generic liquids. A similar result is observed when analyzing the dielectric data of the binary mixtures of 2-ethyl-1-hexanol and 2-methyl-1-butanol reported in an early study. The unusual behavior of the dielectric strength in the mixtures reveals a new feature of the Debye relaxation in monohydroxy alcohols. Yet, the calorimetric measurements of the glass transition temperature in 2E1B-4M2P mixtures show a distinct negative deviation from the ideal mixing law. The explanation of the Debye relaxation is discussed with the results.
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