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American Institute of Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 19(124), p. 194501, 2006

DOI: 10.1063/1.2198206

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Water dynamics in n-propylene glycol aqueous solutions

Journal article published in 2006 by S. Cerveny, G. A. Schwartz, A. Alegría ORCID, R. Bergman, J. Swenson
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Abstract

The relaxation dynamics of dipropylene glycol and tripropylene glycol (nPG-n=2,3) water solutions on the nPG-rich side has been studied by broadband dielectric spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry in the temperature range of 130-280 K. Two relaxation processes are observed for all the hydration levels; the slower process (I) is related to the alpha relaxation of the solution whereas the faster one (II) is associated with the reorientation of water molecules in the mixture. Dielectric data for process (II) at temperatures between 150 and 200 K indicate the existence of a critical water concentration (x(c)) below which water mobility is highly restricted. Below x(c), nPG-water domains drive the dielectric signal whereas above x(c), water-water domains dominate the dielectric response at low temperatures. The results also show that process (II) at low temperatures is due to local motions of water molecules in the glassy frozen matrix. Additionally, we will show that the glass transition temperatures (T(g)) for aqueous PG, 2PG, and 3PG solutions do not extrapolate to approximately 136 K, regardless of the extrapolation method. Instead, we find that the extrapolated T(g) value for water from these solutions lies in the neighborhood of 165 K.