Some considerations on the transport properties of water-glycerol suspensions

J Chem Phys. 2016 Jan 7;144(1):014501. doi: 10.1063/1.4939087.

Abstract

We study the self-diffusion coefficient and viscosity of a water-glycerol mixture for several glycerol molar fractions as a function of temperature well inside the metastable supercooled regime. We perform NMR experiments and verify that the system has at different concentration a fragile-to-strong crossover accompanied by the violation of the Stokes-Einstein relation. We observe that the crossover temperature depends on the water amount. Studying the fractional representation of the Stokes-Einstein relation, we find that in these systems dynamical arrest does not exhibit criticality and the transport parameters have a universal behavior.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.