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Título:	Polymorphism with conformational isomerism and incomplete crystallization in solid ethanolamine
Autor/a:	Romanini, Michela; Negrier, Philippe; Tripathi, Pragya; Gournis, Dimitrios; Lira, Kyriaki-Marina; Barrio Casado, María del; Pardo Soto, Luis Carlos; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Macovez, Roberto
Otros autores:	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GCM - Grup de Caracterització de Materials
Abstract:	We employ calorimetry, Rietveld refinement of X-ray powder diffraction, broadband dielectric spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations, to investigate the phase behavior, crystal structure, dc conductivity and dielectric response of the condensed phases of ethanolamine (EAM), an ethane derivative with two distinct hydrogen-bonding groups. EAM is found to exhibit, besides its stable crystal phase, a metastable crystalline phase obtained from the supercooled liquid phase. The metastable phase can only be maintained at low temperature; upon heating an irreversible exothermic transformation to the stable crystal structure takes place at 210 K, with a low transition enthalpy of ca. 2.4 J/g. The observed polymorphism is accompanied by differences in the molecular conformation and degree of structural order. Each EAM molecule participates in six H-bonds in both crystalline phases. While the stable phase is fully ordered, the metastable phase appears to be characterized by a statistical disorder in the position of the hydrogen atoms and thus of the intramolecular conformation and intermolecular hydrogen bonding. Our molecular dynamics simulations suggest that such disorder is dynamic in character, and allow analyzing the dynamic H-bonding motif of the metastable phase in terms of composition, length and energy of the H-bonds, and molecular conformations involved. Charge conduction is mainly ionic in both crystalline phases and exhibits the typical temperature dependence of disordered solid electrolytes, rather than crystalline ones. Dielectric characterization indicates that, upon crystallization of liquid EAM, a small fraction of the sample (approximately 5%) remains amorphous, a situation similar to that reported for other H-bonded systems such as glycerol and nbutanol.
Materia(s):	-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria dels materials -Molecular dynamics -Hydrogen -Ethane derivative -Metastable crystal phase -Rietveld refinement -Molecular dynamics -Hydrogen bond network -Frustrated crystallization -Dinàmica molecular -Hidrogen
Derechos:	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
Tipo de documento:	Artículo - Versión presentada Artículo
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