Effect of substrate interactions on the glass transition and length-scale of correlated dynamics in ultra-thin molecular glass films

Why we need to look beyond the glass transition temperature to characterize the dynamics of thin supported polymer films

(2018) Wengang Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exploring the broadening and the existence of two glass transitions due to competing interfacial effects in thin, supported polymer films

(2017) Ethan C. Glor et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Influence of chemistry, interfacial width, and non-isothermal conditions on spatially heterogeneous activated relaxation and elasticity in glass-forming free standing films

(2017) Stephen Mirigian et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Local glass transition temperature Tg(z) of polystyrene next to different polymers: Hard vs. soft confinement

(2017) Roman R. Baglay et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Disconnecting structure and dynamics in glassy thin films

(2017) Daniel M. Sussman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Glass transition of polymers in bulk, confined geometries, and near interfaces

(2017) Simone Napolitano et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Irreversible Adsorption Erases the Free Surface Effect on the Tg of Supported Films of Poly(4-tert-butylstyrene)

(2017) Natalia G. Perez-de-Eulate et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Long-range correlated dynamics in ultra-thin molecular glass films

(2016) Yue Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Direct Measurement of Glass Transition Temperature in Exposed and Buried Adsorbed Polymer Nanolayers

(2016) Mary J. Burroughs et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Interfacial Energy and Glass Temperature of Polymers Confined to Nanoporous Alumina

(2016) Stelios Alexandris et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Communication: Experimentally determined profile of local glass transition temperature across a glassy-rubbery polymer interface with a Tg difference of 80 K

(2015) Roman R. Baglay et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

A unifying framework to quantify the effects of substrate interactions, stiffness, and roughness on the dynamics of thin supported polymer films

(2015) Paul Z. Hanakata et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Thermal stability of vapor-deposited stable glasses of an organic semiconductor

(2015) Diane M. Walters et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

An Emerging Unified View of Dynamic Interphases in Polymers

(2015) David S. Simmons   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Glass Transition Dynamics and Fragility of Ultrathin Miscible Polymer Blend Films

(2015) Ethan C. Glor et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Role of neighboring domains in determining the magnitude and direction of Tg-confinement effects in binary, immiscible polymer systems

(2015) Christopher M. Evans et al.   POLYMER

Quantitative relations between cooperative motion, emergent elasticity, and free volume in model glass-forming polymer materials

(2015) Beatriz A. Pazmiño Betancourt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Synthesis and high-throughput characterization of structural analogues of molecular glassformers: 1,3,5-trisarylbenzenes

(2015) Tianyi Liu et al.   Soft Matter

Facilitation of interfacial dynamics in entangled polymer films

(2014) Ethan C. Glor et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Elastically cooperative activated barrier hopping theory of relaxation in viscous fluids. II. Thermal liquids

(2014) Stephen Mirigian et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Communication: Slow relaxation, spatial mobility gradients, and vitrification in confined films

(2014) Stephen Mirigian et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Elastically cooperative activated barrier hopping theory of relaxation in viscous fluids. I. General formulation and application to hard sphere fluids

(2014) Stephen Mirigian et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Physical Aging, the Local Dynamics of Glass-Forming Polymers under Nanoscale Confinement

(2014) Amit Shavit et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Formation Mechanism of High-Density, Flattened Polymer Nanolayers Adsorbed on Planar Solids

(2014) Naisheng Jiang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Sensitive Characterization of the Influence of Substrate Interfaces on Supported Thin Films

(2014) Jie Xu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Interfacial mobility scale determines the scale of collective motion and relaxation rate in polymer films

(2014) Paul Z. Hanakata et al.   Nature Communications

Combined Dependence of Nanoconfined Tg on Interfacial Energy and Softness of Confinement

(2014) Ryan J. Lang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Fragility is a Key Parameter in Determining the Magnitude of Tg-Confinement Effects in Polymer Films

(2013) Christopher M. Evans et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Influence of Backbone Rigidity on Nanoscale Confinement Effects in Model Glass-Forming Polymers

(2013) Amit Shavit et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Interfacial Dynamic Length Scales in the Glass Transition of a Model Freestanding Polymer Film and Their Connection to Cooperative Motion

(2013) Ryan J. Lang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Local variation of fragility and glass transition temperature of ultra-thin supported polymer films

(2012) Paul Z. Hanakata et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Direct Measurement of Molecular Motion in Freestanding Polystyrene Thin Films

(2011) Keewook Paeng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Impact of an Irreversibly Adsorbed Layer on Local Viscosity of Nanoconfined Polymer Melts

(2011) Tadanori Koga et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Two Simultaneous Mechanisms Causing Glass Transition Temperature Reductions in High Molecular Weight Freestanding Polymer Films as Measured by Transmission Ellipsometry

(2011) Justin E. Pye et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Local and Average Glass Transitions in Polymer Thin Films

(2010) Jane E. G. Lipson et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Glassy Dynamics and Glass Transition in Nanometric Thin Layers of Polystyrene

(2010) Martin Tress et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Glass Transition Dynamics and Surface Layer Mobility in Unentangled Polystyrene Films

(2010) Z. Yang et al.   SCIENCE

Affinity of Polystyrene Films to Hydrogen-Passivated Silicon and Its Relevance to theTgof the Films

(2009) Yoshihisa Fujii et al.   MACROMOLECULES

On the surface of glasses

(2008) Jacob D. Stevenson et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS