Using nuclear magnetic resonance and quasi-elastic neutron scattering spectroscopic techniques, we obtain experimental evidence of a well-defined dynamic crossover temperature TL in supercooled water. We consider three different geometrical environments: (i) water confined in a nanotube (quasi-one-dimensional water), (ii) water in the first hydration layer of the lysozyme protein (quasi-two-dimensional water), and (iii) water in a mixture with methanol at a methanol molar fraction of x ) 0.22 (quasi-three-dimensional water). The temperature predicted using a power law approach to analyze the bulk water viscosity in the super-Arrhenius regime defines the fragile-to-strong transition and the Stokes-Einstein relation breakdown recently observed in confined water. Our experiments show that these observed processes are independent of the system dimension d and are instead caused by the onset of an extended hydrogen-bond network that governs the dynamical properties of water as it approaches dynamic arrest.

Dynamical Crossover and Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein Relation in Confined Water and in Methanol-Diluted Bulk Water

MALLAMACE, Francesco;BRANCA, Caterina;CORSARO, CARMELO;LEONE, NANCY;
2010-01-01

Abstract

Using nuclear magnetic resonance and quasi-elastic neutron scattering spectroscopic techniques, we obtain experimental evidence of a well-defined dynamic crossover temperature TL in supercooled water. We consider three different geometrical environments: (i) water confined in a nanotube (quasi-one-dimensional water), (ii) water in the first hydration layer of the lysozyme protein (quasi-two-dimensional water), and (iii) water in a mixture with methanol at a methanol molar fraction of x ) 0.22 (quasi-three-dimensional water). The temperature predicted using a power law approach to analyze the bulk water viscosity in the super-Arrhenius regime defines the fragile-to-strong transition and the Stokes-Einstein relation breakdown recently observed in confined water. Our experiments show that these observed processes are independent of the system dimension d and are instead caused by the onset of an extended hydrogen-bond network that governs the dynamical properties of water as it approaches dynamic arrest.
2010
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