Molecular beam vapor deposition on cryogenic substrates is known to produce amorphous solid films.  When heated above their glass transition these films transform into deeply supercooled liquids.  These nanoscale liquid films can be used to study kinetic processes such as diffusion, isotope exchange, and crystallization in unprecedented detail.  This talk will highlight our recent advances in this area with a focus on hydrogen-bonded liquids such as water and alcohols. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences.  The research was performed using EMSL, a national scientific user facility sponsored by DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is operated by Battelle, operated for the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830.

Using nanoscale amorphous solid films to create and study deeply supercooled liquids

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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