• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 22, Issue 1, 013001 (2024)
Jiaqi Zhang1, Yuyue Yan1, Liyuan Liu1、*, and Weili Zhang2、**
Author Affiliations
  • 1Centre for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoeletronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, United States
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202422.013001 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Jiaqi Zhang, Yuyue Yan, Liyuan Liu, Weili Zhang. Terahertz spectroscopy of water in nonionic reverse micelles[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2024, 22(1): 013001 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The dynamics of water within a nanopool of a reverse micelle is heavily affected by the amphiphilic interface. In this work, the terahertz (THz) spectra of cyclohexane/Igepal/water nonionic reverse micelle mixture are measured by THz time-domain spectroscopy and analyzed with two Debye models and complex permittivity of background with volume ratios. Based on the fitted parameters of bulk and fast water, the molar concentration of all kinds of water molecules and hydration water molecule number per Igepal molecule are calculated. We find that slow hydration water has the highest proportion in water when the radius parameter ω0<10, while bulk water becomes the main component when ω010. The feature radius ratio of nonhydrated and hydrated water to total water nanopool is roughly obtained from 0.39 to 0.85 with increasing ω0.
    r=aω0,

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    ω0=[H2O][Igepal],

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    ε^(ω)=Sfast1+iωτfast+Sbulk1+iωτbulk+ε,

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    ε^(ω)=Sfast1+iωτfast+Sbulk1+iωτbulk+nSn1+iωτn+ε,

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    ε^(ω)=Sfast1+iωτfast+Sbulk1+iωτbulk+fε^back(ω)+ε,

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    ci(ω0)=Si(ω0)/gi(ω0)Sfast,pure/gfast(0)+Sbulk,pure/gbulk(0)cH2O(0),

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    cslow(ω0)=cH2O(ω0)Sfast(ω0)+Sbulk(ω0)Sfast,pure+Sbulk,purecH2O(0),

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    rNon-hydrated(ω0)rwater(ω0)=NNon-hydrated(ω0)Nwater(ω0)3,

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    rHydrated(ω0)rwater(ω0)=1rNon-hydrated(ω0)rwater(ω0),

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    rHydrated=aω0rHydrated(ω0)rwater(ω0).

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    Jiaqi Zhang, Yuyue Yan, Liyuan Liu, Weili Zhang. Terahertz spectroscopy of water in nonionic reverse micelles[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2024, 22(1): 013001
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