Journal
JOURNAL OF THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY
Volume 99, Issue 1, Pages 123-138Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10973-009-0500-y
Keywords
Glass transition; Thermal analysis; Adiabatic calorimetry; Water; Aqueous mixtures; Water in nano-confinement; Hydration water; Hydrated protein; Polymer blends; Polymer solutions
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In several current important problems in different areas of soft matter physics, controversy persists in interpreting the molecular dynamics observed by various spectroscopies including dielectric relaxation, light scattering, nuclear magnetic resonance, and neutron scattering. Outstanding examples include: (1) relaxation of water in aqueous mixtures, in molecular sieves and silica-gel nanopores, and in hydration shell of proteins; and (2) dynamics of each component in binary miscible polymer blends, in mixtures of an amorphous polymer with a small molecular glassformer, and in binary mixtures of two small molecular glassformers. We show the applications of calorimetry to these problems have enhanced our understanding of the dynamics and eliminated the controversies.
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