Dielectric relaxation measurements, in combination with density determinations, on tetramethyl tetraphenyl trisiloxane (DC704) over an unusually broad range of temperatures and pressures revealed a state-point dependency in its density scaling exponent. This is the first unambiguous experimental demonstration of a breakdown of density scaling in a nonassociated glass-forming material, and unanticipated for DC704, among the "simplest" of liquids, having a constant breadth of the relaxation dispersion and a Prigogine-Defay ratio near unity characteristic of approximate single-parameter systems. We speculate that the anomalous behavior has origins in the large value of its scaling exponent and relative flexibility of the chemical structure.
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Sensors (Basel)
December 2024
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia.
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December 2024
Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Universitaetsstrasse 9, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany.
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December 2024
Department of Medicine and Health Sciences "V.Tiberio", University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy.
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December 2024
Department of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, 74 Zhongshan Second Rd, Guangzhou 510080, China.
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November 2024
Research Center of Biotechnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia.
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