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Xia Gao1, Dongsheng Fu, Baoquan Xie
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China.
Abstract:
The confined phase behaviors of microencapsulated normal hexadecane/octadecane mixtures (abbreviated as m-C16/C18) have been investigated by combination of differential scanning calorimetry and in situ wide-angle X-ray scattering. The binary alkane mixtures confined in three-dimensional geometrical space demonstrate two novel crystallization features. The surface freezing is significantly enhanced after C16/C18 mixtures being encapsulated, and the surface monolayer formed is proved to be an ideal solid solution composed by C16 and C18. Furthermore, m-C16/C18 mixtures are trapped into a stabilized rotator phase below the crystallization temperatures, whereas C16/C18 mixtures with certain compositions form the low-temperature crystalline structure directly. These confined crystallization features originate from the jointed effects of spatial confinement and chain mixing of the components. Moreover, the phase diagram of the confined binary alkane mixtures (m-C16/C18) is successfully established for the first time, which enlightens the crystallization features of other spatially confined soft-matter binary systems.
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