The nonlinear dielectric effect (NDE)
measurements of nonanol,
undecanol, and dodecanol in the vicinity of the melting point were
performed to examine and to develop the hypothesis on pretransition
phenomena in decanol (Pocheć et all, J. Phys. Chem. C 2019,
123, 16929–16933). The results show that the anomalous increase
of the nonlinear dielectric effect in the immediate vicinity of the
melting point is uniform for each of the studied compounds. We link
the observed anomaly with the formation of a liquidlike film on the
surface of the solid. The scaling function describing these anomalies
was proposed and tested. We proved the feasibility of NDE studies
in the examination of premelting phenomena.
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