… Developing structure–property relationships between the filler/matrix interface chemistry
and the dispersion and interface properties of polymer nanocomposites (PNC) is critical to …

… and glass transition of rubber can be controlled by constructing attractive interface between
… that interfacial segmental mobility was reduced and glass transition temperatures (T g s) of …

… of polymers at surfaces and interfaces, there has been much … polymer mobility at an interface,
control many technologically … the effects of surfaces and interfaces on the glass transition, …

… We investigate the glass transition behavior in polymer thin films using a model equation-of-state
approach, which involves molecular parameters whose values are determined from fits …

… ellipsometry to measure the glass transition temperature Tg of … of chain confinement effects
on the glass transition temperature of … is the dominant effect in determining the glass transition …

… through the phenomenology and salient theories of the glass transition (1). We then focus
on operational definitions of the glass transition temperature in experiments and in silico, on …

… Up to now, the real nature of the glass transition process, … This transition has often been
discussed through theories mainly … , the effects of a surface or an interface on the glass transition …

… show no glass transition up to at least 60 'C above the bulk glass-transition temperature,
while a break in the thickness versus temperature curve, signaling the glass transition and the …

… to distinguish between effects at either surface. The bilayer model discussed above essentially
describes the combined effects of the air and the substrate interfaces, parametrized by …

… This trend is observed in all cases and we find that the reduced glass transitions of films
with two free interfaces are characterized by a slope-melt contrast of 1:4 Æ 0:3 and for the …