Highly Stable Vapor-Deposited Glasses of Four Tris-naphthylbenzene Isomers

TitleHighly Stable Vapor-Deposited Glasses of Four Tris-naphthylbenzene Isomers
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsDawson, K., L. Zhu, L. A. Kopff, R. J. McMahon, L. Yu, and M. D. Ediger
JournalJournal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume2
Start Page2683
ISBN Number1948-7185
Accession NumberWOS:000296597700002
Keywords1,3,5-TRI-ALPHA-NAPHTHYLBENZENE, AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS, PHOTORESISTS, PHYSICAL PROPERTIES, RELAXATION, STABILITY, SUPERCOOLED LIQUID, TEMPERATURE, TOLUENE, TRANSITION
Abstract

Recent reports have shown that physical vapor deposition can prepare organic glasses with remarkably high kinetic stability and low enthalpy in comparison with ordinary glasses formed by cooling the supercooled liquid. We have prepared vapor-deposited glasses of four isomers of tris-naphthylbenzene (TNB) and characterized them using differential scanning calorimetry. We find that highly stable glasses can be prepared from all four isomers of TNB by vapor deposition at 0.85 T-g. Glasses with low enthalpy were prepared for at least three of the four isomers. Because the TNB family of isomers contains both good and poor glass-formers, these results indicate a new dimension to the generality of stable organic glass formation via physical vapor deposition.

DOI10.1021/jz201174m
Alternate JournalJ. Phys. Chem. Lett.