Abstract
Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation measurements were carried out to investigate the low-frequency hydrocarbon chain dynamics in decylammonium chloride (C10H21NH3Cl), a model biomembrane undergoing an irreversible structural phase transition. It is demonstrated by systematic proton NMR study of spin-spin relaxation and rotating frame spin-lattice relaxation that a low-frequency chain dynamics is responsible for the critical dynamics associated only with the interdigitated-to-noninterdigitated chain configurational phase transition.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2888-2891 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of the Physical Society of Japan |
Volume | 70 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2001 Oct |
Keywords
- Chain dynamics
- Critical fluctuation
- NMR
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)