화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.111, No.49, 13743-13747, 2007
A novel approach to solvation time scale in nonpolar solvents via instability of solvent density modes
We perform linear stability analysis of solvent density modes in the presence of nonpolar solute-solvent interaction in a nonpolar solvent. The dominant instability given by the maximum positive eigenvalue of the stability matrix provides the time scale of the solvent rearrangement around a solute. Our theory predicts two long time scales for both in normal nonpolar and supercritical fluids. We discuss the existing experimental results on nonpolar solvation dynamics in light of our prediction.