Low-frequency chain dynamics in decylammonium chloride

Kyu Won Lee, Cheol Eui Lee, Jun Kun Kang

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2888-2891
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of the Physical Society of Japan
Volume70
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2001 Oct

Keywords

  • Chain dynamics
  • Critical fluctuation
  • NMR

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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