2H-nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR)-spin–lattice relaxation experiments have been performed for studying the crossover from viscous (α process) to secondary (β processes) dynamics in the van der Waals liquid orthoterphenyl and the H-bridged network glycerol. The essential and general features, observed in both systems, are the following: (a) a dominating α process in the liquid and viscous regime; (b) a change from exponential to nonexponential spin–lattice relaxation as the temperature is lowered below a characteristic temperature above Tg; (c) the existence of a slow (>10−9 s) secondary reorientational process in the highly viscous regime; and (d) the existence of a fast (∼10−12 s) local process in the glassy state. Whereas the slower process is shown to be the one known from dielectric studies, we attribute the fast mode to a β process found in quasielastic neutron scattering.

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Selectively deuterated glycerol has been subjected to 'H-NMR spin-lattice relaxation and quasi-elastic neutron scattering experiments. The measurements yield relaxation rates and a non-Gaussian &-dependence of the Debye-Waller factor which are different for the two hydrogen sites. The data analysis shows that below the onset of the glass transition aprocess the hydrogens perform a local motion (= lO-"s) in addition to what is expected from harmonic phonons. The resulting mean-square displacements are highly temperature dependent but are significantly smaller than those found in van der Waals glasses. Amplitudes and activation energies of the carbon-bonded and oxygen-bonded hydrogens are different. A possible mechanism is discussed.

Dynamic properties of dioctanoyl peroxide guest molecules constrained within the urea tunnel structure: A combined incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering and solid state 2 H nuclear magnetic resonance investigation J. Chem. Phys. 109, 4078 (1998); 10.1063/1.477008 Molecular dynamics of water in oriented DPPC multilayers studied by quasielastic neutron scattering and deuteriumnuclear magnetic resonance relaxation

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