Issue 24, 2022

Isotope effects on the dynamics of amorphous ices and aqueous phosphoric acid solutions

Abstract

The glass transitions of amorphous ices as well as of aqueous phosphoric acid solutions were reported to display very large 1H/2H isotope effects. Using dielectric spectroscopy, in both types of glassformers for equimolar protonated/deuterated mixtures an almost ideal isotope-mixing behavior rather than a bimodal relaxation is found. For the amorphous ices this finding is interpreted in terms of a glass-to-liquid rather than an orientational glass transition scenario. Based on calorimetric results revealing that major 16O/18O isotope effects are missing, the latter scenario was previously favored for the amorphous ices. Considering the dielectric results on 18O substituted amorphous ices and by comparison with corresponding results for the aqueous phosphoric acid solutions, it is argued that the present findings are compatible with the glass-to-liquid scenario. To provide additional information regarding the deeply supercooled state of 1H/2H isotopically mixed and 18O substituted glassformers, the aqueous phosphoric acid solutions are studied using shear mechanical spectroscopy as well, a technique which so far could not successfully be applied to characterize the glass transitions of the amorphous ices.

Graphical abstract: Isotope effects on the dynamics of amorphous ices and aqueous phosphoric acid solutions

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Mar 2022
Accepted
02 Jun 2022
First published
14 Jun 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022,24, 14846-14856

Isotope effects on the dynamics of amorphous ices and aqueous phosphoric acid solutions

S. Ahlmann, L. Hoffmann, M. Keppler, P. Münzner, C. M. Tonauer, T. Loerting, C. Gainaru and R. Böhmer, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022, 24, 14846 DOI: 10.1039/D2CP01455F

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