The diffusion of medium-chain molecular liquids (Coenzyme Q10, n-alkanes) was studied using
quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) and pulsed field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy (PFG-NMR). Neutron scattering experiments at the time-of-flight spectrometer
TOFTOF and the neutron spin echo spectrometer J-NSE at the FRM II were performed. For the evaluation of TOF-QENS data, different scattering functions for the description of the local motions were used. However, the obtained diffusion coefficients were independent of the models used. A comparison of TOF-QENS-diffusion coefficients with corresponding PFG-NMR values showed significant differences depending on the chain length of the n-alkane. The time dependence of the diffusion coefficient and the complementarity of QENS and PFG-NMR is dicussed regarding the long range diffusion. Furthermore, detailed QENS studies of the methyl group rotation in the solid and in the liquid state, respectively, of small organic molecules were performed with the model substances pentafluoroanisole, pentafluorotoluene, and Q0. While in the solid state for each crystallographically nonequivalent methyl group an activation energy could be derived from the data, the methyl group rotation in the liquid state was determined to be free of a barrier.
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The diffusion of medium-chain molecular liquids (Coenzyme Q10, n-alkanes) was studied using
quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) and pulsed field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy (PFG-NMR). Neutron scattering experiments at the time-of-flight spectrometer
TOFTOF and the neutron spin echo spectrometer J-NSE at the FRM II were performed. For the evaluation of TOF-QENS data, different scattering functions for the description of the local motions were used. However, the obtaine...
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