Abstract
Nuclear magnetic resonance has been employed as a probe for the collective hydrocarbon chain dynamics in the organic-inorganic model biomembranes (CnH2n+1NH3)2SnCl6, undergoing order-disorder and conformational phase transitions. No anomalies were observed in the laboratory-frame spin-lattice relaxation measurements at the order-disorder phase transitions, whereas a discontinuity was manifest at the conformational phase transitions characteristic of a first-order phase transition. On the other hand, our rotating frame spin-lattice relaxation measurements revealed a low-frequency critical collective chain dynamics in the kilohertz regime associated with the order-disorder phase transition.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 31-33 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Current Applied Physics |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 Jan |
Keywords
- Critical dynamics model biomembranes
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- Phase transition
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Materials Science(all)
- Physics and Astronomy(all)