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Study of fast switching processes due to electric and magnetic fields—an NMR approach

✍ Scribed by P. Holstein; J. Rauchfuß; M. Winkler; G. Klotzsche; D. Geschke


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
229 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
0926-2040

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✦ Synopsis


Solid state NMR techniques have been developed to investigate dynamic molecular effects (e.g., molecular reorientations) due to simultaneously applied external electric fields on electrically sensitive materials such as liquid crystals (LC), liquid crystalline polymers (LCP) and polymeric electrets. Such effects can be observed only on relatively thin systems (10-200 microm). That means that many scans are necessary to achieve a sufficiently high signal-to-noise-ratio in the spectra (500-1000 scans). If the material is also magnetically sensitive, the electric field can be used to orient molecules in a starting orientational state and by switching-off the voltage to access fast reorientation processes in the magnetic field B0. Until now, the behaviour of orientable molecular systems under the influence of electric fields has been investigated by means of a more or less quasistatic approach (LCP: 100 V, electrets: 1 kV) in equilibrium states. The achievable time resolution depends on the desired signal-to-noise-ratio. For the case of proton NMR this means a time resolution of about 10 min. However, very often switching processes occur on a much shorter time scale. Using conventional techniques it is impossible to observe fast (ca. 100 micros) electrically or magnetically induced reorientation processes. In this work, we present a concept to overcome the problems outlined above and to extend the area of our current in situ NMR investigations on thin electrically-switched or poled polymeric layers. The basic idea is to include synchronized electric pulses during the NMR experiment using the preparation and/or mixing periods of a 1D or 2D pulse sequence for the application of an orienting field (electric or magnetic) and to use the reversibility of the molecular switching phenomenon to achieve a sufficient signal-to-noise-ratio. The techniques extend the range of possible investigations from about 100 micros to approximately T1 for correlated spectra (and to longer times of applied fields for uncorrelated spectra). Results are shown for a nematic LC and a nematic polymer having a similar side chain.


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