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Long-Time Relaxation of Stress-Induced Birefringence of Microcrystalline Alkali Halide Crystals

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العنوان: Long-Time Relaxation of Stress-Induced Birefringence of Microcrystalline Alkali Halide Crystals
المؤلفون: Hiroki Ueno, Ryoga Arakane, Yoshihisa Matsumoto, Tomoki Tsumura, Akihito Kitazaki, Toru Takahashi, Shotaro Hirao, Yasushi Ohga, Takunori Harada
المصدر: Molecules, Vol 23, Iss 4, p 757 (2018)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2018.
سنة النشر: 2018
المجموعة: LCC:Organic chemistry
مصطلحات موضوعية: alkali halides, tablet method, birefringence, chiroptical measurement, Organic chemistry, QD241-441
الوصف: Alkali halide single crystals are most commonly used as the diluent matrix in the tablet method or disk technique for spectroscopic measurements. However, stress-induced birefringence (SIB) of alkali halides as well as intrinsic birefringence manifest during the disk formation process. Thus, the true chiroptical measurement is disturbed by optical anisotropies (OA) containing SIB and intrinsic birefringence, except in the case of optical homogeneity. SIB is generally larger than intrinsic birefringence and has a value of several thousand millidegrees in the ultraviolet-visible wavelength range, although this varies with disk type. Here, to investigate the SIB origin, alkali halide crystals were examined using polarized light, X-ray diffraction, Fourier-transform infrared, and electron backscattering diffraction spectroscopic measurements. It was found that, after stress release, the SIB exhibited nonlinear long-time relaxation, which roughly converged within several hours, with the only time-invariant intrinsic birefringence remaining being due to OA. This behavior was strongly related to an increase in the quasi-amorphous domain and the generation of an air gap between the crystallite boundaries and their pellets. Further, a straightforward correlation was found between amorphization and an increase in the disk water content caused by deliquescence. Thus, the OA of alkali halide single crystals was found to have two different origins yielding intrinsic birefringence and SIB.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1420-3049
Relation: http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/4/757; https://doaj.org/toc/1420-3049
DOI: 10.3390/molecules23040757
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/d2986dd754ed4b8fae437457d361dfd2
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.2986dd754ed4b8fae437457d361dfd2
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:14203049
DOI:10.3390/molecules23040757