Diffuse X-ray scattering by glassy crystalline cyclohexanol : preliminary results

Abstract

Diffuse X-ray scattering experiments have been performed to define structural criteria for the glassy crystalline state. When quenching single crystals of the plastic phase of cyclohexanol, the low temperature photographs disclose a structuration of the diffusion patterns that can be assigned to strongly anisotropic short range intermolecular correlations within an orientational disorder. When quenching liquid samples, an amorphous cyclohexanol phase has been discovered