Abstract
A study of surface freezing in dry and hydrated octadecanol:tetradecanol mixtures was performed using surface tension and synchrotron x-ray surface diffraction techniques. A sharp increase in the bulk supercooling occurred at molar concentration (φ)≈0.4 in dry mixtures upon increasing the bulk mole fraction of C18OH. The dependence of the surface freezing onset temperature of both mixtures and hydrated bulk's freezing temperature on φ was shown by a thermodynamical model.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 8056-8066 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
Volume | 116 |
Issue number | 18 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 8 May 2002 |