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@INPROCEEDINGS{Zorn:1023111,
author = {Zorn, Reiner},
title = {{Q}uasielastic neutron scattering experiments on confined
glass-forming liquids},
school = {Institut Laue-Langevin},
reportid = {FZJ-2024-01681},
year = {2022},
abstract = {The explanation of the dynamics of glass-forming materials
is a still unsolved problem in solid state theory. My
collaboration with Bernhard Frick started in 1990 when
quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) was beginning to be
employed on such systems. At that time, experiments mostly
aimed at scrutinizing Mode Coupling Theory (MCT) and were
done on bulk systems because this theory does not explicitly
include a length scale. After first successes, the
limitations of MCT became clearer over the years and
alternative concepts were sought. One of these is that of
Cooperatively Rearranging Regions (CRR) of the size of some
nanometers. An obvious way to test the importance of CRRs is
to confine the sample to that size and look for changes in
the dynamics. By the mid-90s materials became available with
suited pore sizes, Controlled Porous Glasses (CPG). We
immediately started the QENS experiments on simple liquids
confined in CPGs, later extending them to polymers and
liquid crystals in a cooperation with Andreas Schönhals who
provided additional methods allowing an enormous increase in
dynamical range. The experiments showed that the basic
predictions of a CRR model are fulfilled but surface effects
modify the dynamics significantly. To reduce these,
experiments were done in ‘soft confinement’, i.e.,
microemulsions which confine the glass-forming liquid in
droplets. These experiments gave a clearer support to CRR
ideas but also turned out to be much more complicated in
their interpretation because the ‘matrix’ material is
not immobile.},
month = {Oct},
date = {2022-10-11},
organization = {5th International Workshop on Dynamics
in Confinement, Grenoble (France), 11
Oct 2022 - 13 Oct 2022},
subtyp = {Invited},
cin = {JCNS-1 / IBI-8},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-1-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)IBI-8-20200312},
pnm = {632 - Materials – Quantum, Complex and Functional
Materials (POF4-632) / 6G4 - Jülich Centre for Neutron
Research (JCNS) (FZJ) (POF4-6G4) / 5241 - Molecular
Information Processing in Cellular Systems (POF4-524) / 5251
- Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability (POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-632 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-6G4 /
G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5241 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5251},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1023111},
}