%0 Journal Article
%T Predicting how nanoconfinement changes the relaxation time of a supercooled liquid
%A Trond S. Ingebrigtsen
%A Jeffrey R. Errington
%A Thomas M. Truskett
%A Jeppe C. Dyre
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.235901
%X The properties of nanoconfined fluids can be strikingly different from those of bulk liquids. A basic unanswered question is whether the equilibrium and dynamic consequences of confinement are related to each other in a simple way. We study this question by simulation of a liquid comprising asymmetric dumbbell-shaped molecules, which can be deeply supercooled without crystallizing. We find that the dimensionless structural relaxation times - spanning six decades as a function of temperature, density, and degree of confinement - collapse when plotted versus excess entropy. The data also collapse when plotted versus excess isochoric heat capacity, a behaviour that follows from the existence of isomorphs in the bulk and confined states.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0976v1