https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20158302007
Quasielastic neutron scattering study of POSS ligand dynamics
1 Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany
2 Chemical and Engineering Materials Division, Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37861-6475, USA
3 NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8562, USA
4 Department of Materials Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
5 DuPont Central Research and Development, Wilmington, DE 19880-0400, USA
a Corresponding author: n.jalarvo@fz-juelich.de
Published online: 23 January 2015
Polyoligosilsesquioxanes are molecules having cage-like structures composed of silicon and oxygen. These molecules can have a wide variety of functional ligands attached to them. Depending on the nature of the ligand, interesting properties and applications are found. In this work we present results from quasielastic neutron scattering measurements of four different POSS molecules that illustrate the presence of strong coupling between the ligand dynamics and the POSS crystal structures.
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