Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 63, Number 3, August 2003
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Page(s) | 368 - 373 | |
Section | Condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00541-0 | |
Published online | 01 November 2003 |
Neutron diffraction and thermal studies of amorphous realised by low-temperature vapour deposition
1
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
2
College of Science and Technology, Tokyo Denki University Hatoyama-cho, Hiki-gun, Saitama 350-0394, Japan
3
Department of Chemistry, Naruto University of Education Naruto, Tokushima 772-8502, Japan
4
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Niigata University Ikarashi, Niigata 950-2181, Japan
Corresponding author: yamamuro@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp
Received:
20
December
2002
Accepted:
28
May
2003
We have succeeded in preparing amorphous carbon disulphide () by depositing its vapour on a cold substrate at 10. Complete formation of the amorphous state has been confirmed by neutron diffraction and differential thermal analysis (DTA). The amorphous sample crystallised at ca. 70, which is lower than the hypothetical glass transition temperature (92) estimated from the DTA data of the ()x() binary mixture. , a symmetric linear tri-atomic molecule, is the simplest of the amorphised molecular substances whose structural and thermal information has been reported so far. Comparison of the static structure factors has shown that the orientational correlation of molecules may be much stronger in the amorphous state than in the liquid state at higher temperature.
PACS: 61.12.Ld – Neutron diffraction / 61.43.Fs – Glasses / 64.70.Pf – Glass transitions
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