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Molecular dynamics of glycerol and glycerol-trehalose bioprotectant solutions nanoconfined in porous silicon.

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Glycerol and trehalose-glycerol binary solutions are glass-forming liquids with remarkable bioprotectant properties. Incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) is used to reveal the different effects of nanoconfinement and addition of trehalose on the molecular dynamics in the normal liquid and supercooled liquid phases, on a nanosecond timescale. Confinement has been realized in straight channels of diameter D=8 nm formed by porous silicon. It leads to a faster and more inhomogeneous relaxation dynamics deep in the liquid phase. This confinement effect remains at lower temperature where it affects the glassy dynamics. The glass transitions of the confined systems are shifted to low temperature with respect to the bulk ones. Adding trehalose tends to slow down the overall glassy dynamics and increases the non-exponential character of the structural relaxation. Unprecedented results are obtained for the binary bioprotectant solution, which exhibits an extremely non-Debye relaxation dynamics as a result of the combination of the effects of confinement and mixing of two constituents.
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hal-00356033 , version 1 (26-01-2009)

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Rémi Busselez, Ronan Lefort, Mohammed Guendouz, Bernhard Frick, Odile Merdrignac-Conanec, et al.. Molecular dynamics of glycerol and glycerol-trehalose bioprotectant solutions nanoconfined in porous silicon.. Journal of Chemical Physics, 2009, 131 (21), pp.214502. ⟨10.1063/1.3147222⟩. ⟨hal-00356033⟩
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