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Modeling elastic properties of polystyrene through coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations
This paper presents an extended coarse-grained investigation of the elastic
properties of polystyrene. In particular, we employ the well-known MARTINI
force field and its modifications to perform extended molecular dynamics
simulations at the s timescale, which take slow relaxation processes of
polystyrene into account, such that the simulations permit analyzing the bulk
modulus, the shear modulus, and the Poisson ratio. We show that through the
iterative modification of MARTINI force field parameters it turns out to be
possible to affect the shear modulus and the bulk modulus of the system, making
them closer to those values reported in the experiment.Comment: 29 pages, 8 figure
Anisotropic relaxation in NADH excited states studied by polarization-modulation pump-probe transient spectroscopy
We present the results of experimental and theoretical studies of fast
anisotropic relaxation and rotational diffusion in the first electron excited
state of biological coenzyme NADH in water-ethanol solutions. The experiments
have been carried out by means of a novel polarization-modulation transient
method and fluorescence polarization spectroscopy. For interpretation of the
experimental results a model of the anisotropic relaxation in terms of scalar
and vector properties of transition dipole moments and based on the
Born-Oppenheimer approximation has been developed. The results obtained suggest
that the dynamics of anisotropic rovibronic relaxation in NADH under excitation
with 100~fs pump laser pulses can be characterised by a single vibration
relaxation time laying in the range 2--15~ps and a single rotation
diffusion time laying in the range 100--450~ps a subject of ethanol
concentration. The dependence of the times and on the
solution polarity (static permittivity) and viscosity has been determined and
analyzed. Limiting values of an important parameter describing the rotation of the transition dipole
moment in the course of vibrational relaxation has been determined from
experiment as function of the ethanol concentration and analyzed.Comment: 14 pages, 13 figure
Probe Beam Dichroism and Birefringence in Stumulated Raman Scattering of Biologically Relevant Polyatomic Molecules
The dichroism and birefringence effects in stumulated Raman scattering (SRS)
in polyatomic molecules were studied theoretically. General expressions have
been derived describing the change of the intensity and polarization of the
probe pulse after transmission through a solution of arbitrary polyatomic
molecules for any initial polarization of each of the laser pulses. The
expressions were written in terms of spherical tensor operators that allowed
for separation of the both beams polarization matrices and the material part
containing three scalar values of nonlinear optical susceptibility where that
rank K is limited to the values K=0,1,2. The expressions are valid for
arbitrary directions of propagation of both pump and Stokes light beams and
arbitrary polarizations of both beams. The expressions contain contributions
from linear dichroism and birefringence in the molecular excited states. It was
shown that, under certain conditions, both effects can be observed
simultaneously. The geometry of almost collinear propagation of the pump and
Stokes pulse beams through the molecular sample was considered, and it was
shown that the contributions from linear dichroism and birefringence to the
signal can be completely separated in the experiment by means of an appropriate
choice of a probe beam polarization analyzer placed in front of the
photodetector. The expressions obtained were used to describe the signals
obtained using the polarization-modulation technique developed recently by the
authors (Gorbunova et al, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2020, Vol. 22, 18155-18168).
It was shown that the modulated dichroism and birefringence signals could be
observed in quadrature to the second harmonic of the modulated reference
signal.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figure
Exaltation et anticipation du crossover de Ioffe-Regel dans des copostes amorphe/nanocristallins
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Linear and Nonlinear Elastic Properties of Polystyrene-Based Nanocomposites with Allotropic Carbon Fillers and Binary Mixtures
We report measurements of linear and nonlinear elastic properties of polystyrene-based nanocomposites with six types of nanofillers, including single and binary mixtures of allotropic carbon nanoparticles. Composite samples were fabricated by the same technology and contained the same filler concentration (5% wt.), which allowed for a direct comparison of their properties. It was shown that the most significant variations of linear and nonlinear elastic properties occur in different nanocomposites. In particular, the most pronounced enhancements of linear elastic moduli (in about 50%) obtained in tensile and flexural tests and in dynamic mechanical analysis were recorded in the sample filled with spherical fullerene nanoparticles. While the most profound rise of absolute values of nonlinear elastic moduli (tens of times) was obtained in the sample filled with the mixture of carbon nanotubes and graphene. The observed tendencies demonstrated the synergistic effect of fillers of different dimensionality on the elastic properties of nanocomposites