Reorientation and translation of individual dye molecules in a polymer matrix |
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Authors: | A Schob J Schuster |
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Institution: | a Photonics and Optical Materials, Institute of Physics 123705, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany b Optical Spectroscopy and Molecular Physics, Institute of Physics 122501, Chemnitz University of Technology, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany |
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Abstract: | The orientational and translational motion of individual dye molecules embedded in a polymer matrix is studied in the temperature regime above the glass transition. The rotational diffusion close to the glass transition is heterogeneous on the single molecule level and few sudden changes in the reorientational speed of single molecules are found. The exchange between these reorientational speeds is found to be one order of magnitude slower than the reorientational time constant of the molecules. Translational motion can be clearly identified at about 1.2 Tg. However, the translational diffusion shows no signs of heterogeneity on the timescale of our experiments, from which we conclude, that the timescale of the exchange process between microenvironments has become too fast or that no heterogeneity exists at the temperatures above 1.2 Tg. |
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Keywords: | Polymer dynamics Single molecule |
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