Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 131, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3159779
Keywords
aerosols; colloids; infrared spectra; liquid structure; water
Funding
- Department of Energy [DE-FG03-84ER13251]
- National Institutes of Health [2-R01-GM061137-09]
- National Science Foundation [DMR 0652232]
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The dynamics of water in Aerosol-OT reverse micelles are investigated with ultrafast infrared spectroscopy of the hydroxyl stretch. In large reverse micelles, the dynamics of water are separable into two ensembles: slow interfacial water and bulklike core water. As the reverse micelle size decreases, the slowing effect of the interface and the collective nature of water reorientation begin to slow the dynamics of the core water molecules. In the smallest reverse micelles, these effects dominate and all water molecules have the same long time reorientational dynamics. To understand and characterize the transition in the water dynamics from two ensembles to collective reorientation, polarization and frequency selective infrared pump-probe experiments are conducted on the complete range of reverse micelle sizes from a diameter of 1.6-20 nm. The crossover between two ensemble and collective reorientation occurs near a reverse micelle diameter of 4 nm. Below this size, the small number of confined water molecules and structural changes in the reverse micelle interface leads to homogeneous long time reorientation.
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