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| author | Liu, Dongxin Elishav, Oren Fu, Jiarui Sakakibara, Masaya Yamanouchi, Kaoru Hirshberg, Barak Nakamuro, Takayuki Nakamura, Eiichi |
| author_facet | Liu, Dongxin Elishav, Oren Fu, Jiarui Sakakibara, Masaya Yamanouchi, Kaoru Hirshberg, Barak Nakamuro, Takayuki Nakamura, Eiichi |
| contents | Upon melting, the molecules in the crystal explore numerous configurations, reflecting an increase in disorder. The molar entropy of disorder can be defined by Bolzmann's formula dSd = Rln(Wd) where Wd is the increase in the number of microscopic states, so far inaccessible experimentally. We found that the Arrhenius frequency factor A of the electron diffraction signal decay provides Wd via an experimental equation A = AINTWd where AINT is an inelastic scattering cross-section. The method connects Clausius and Boltzmann experimentally and supplements the Clausius approach, being applicable to a femtogram quantity of thermally unstable and biomolecular crystals. The data also showed that crystal disordering and crystallization of melt are reciprocal, both governed by the entropy change, but manifesting in opposite directions. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | Unveiling a crystal's entropy of disorder via electron diffraction. A statistical mechanics approach Liu, Dongxin Elishav, Oren Fu, Jiarui Sakakibara, Masaya Yamanouchi, Kaoru Hirshberg, Barak Nakamuro, Takayuki Nakamura, Eiichi Chemical Physics Upon melting, the molecules in the crystal explore numerous configurations, reflecting an increase in disorder. The molar entropy of disorder can be defined by Bolzmann's formula dSd = Rln(Wd) where Wd is the increase in the number of microscopic states, so far inaccessible experimentally. We found that the Arrhenius frequency factor A of the electron diffraction signal decay provides Wd via an experimental equation A = AINTWd where AINT is an inelastic scattering cross-section. The method connects Clausius and Boltzmann experimentally and supplements the Clausius approach, being applicable to a femtogram quantity of thermally unstable and biomolecular crystals. The data also showed that crystal disordering and crystallization of melt are reciprocal, both governed by the entropy change, but manifesting in opposite directions. |
| title | Unveiling a crystal's entropy of disorder via electron diffraction. A statistical mechanics approach |
| topic | Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04738 |