Predicting the Density-Scaling Exponent of a Glass-Forming Liquid from Complex Dielectric Permittivity Measurements

One of the challenging problems related to the liquid-glass transition phenomenon is establishing a link between the character of intermolecular interactions and the behavior of molecular dynamics. Introducing the density scaling concept, according to which dynamic quantities, e.g., viscosity or structural relaxation time (τ_{α}) measured at different thermodynamic conditions are expressed as a single universal curve if plotted against ρ^{γ}/T, led to significant progress in solving this problem since the scaling exponent γ defines the steepness of the repulsive part of the intermolecular potential. Herein, we found that relaxation dynamics of van der Waals and H-bonding glass formers, for which the Kirkwood factor (g_{K}) is an isomorph-invariant quantity, satisfy an alternative scaling, logτ_{α} vs T(Δϵ_{s}T)^{-γ}. As a result, the exponent γ is determined from the temperature and pressure evolutions of τ_{α} and dielectric relaxation strength Δϵ-both obtained in a single dielectric experiment, which makes the γ coefficient to be accessed in the future for an extensive database of glass-forming liquids.