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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 77, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.024202
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The thermal conductivity kappa(T) of the crystalline and glassy phases of the two isomers of propyl alcohol has been measured. The two isomers differ by a minor chemical detail involving the position of the hydroxyl group with respect to the carbon backbone. Such a difference in molecular structure leads, however, to disparate behaviors for the temperature dependence of kappa(T), for both glass and crystal states. The kappa(T) for the glass shows for 1-propanol an anomalously large plateau region comprising temperatures within 6-90 K, while data for isomeric 2-propanol show only a small plateau up to 10 K which is comparable to data on lower alcohols. The results emphasize the role played by internal molecular degrees of freedom as sources of strong resonant phonon scattering.
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