Polymer nanocomposite dielectrics possess exceptional electric properties that are absent
in the pristine dielectric polymers. The matrix/particle interface in polymer nanocomposite …

The lightweight and high-strength functional nanocomposites are important in many
practical applications. Natural biomaterials with excellent mechanical properties provide …

Interfaces play an important role in modifying the dynamics of polymers confined to the
nanoscale. We demonstrate that the distance over which an interface suppresses molecular …

Polymer adsorption proceeds through a wide variety of metastable states due to kinetic
constraints originating from the pinning of segments on solid interfaces, creating an …

We employ a fluorescence bilayer method to directly measure the glass transition
temperature (T g) of the irreversibly adsorbed layer of polystyrene (PS) buried in bulk films …

When cooled at constant rate, a 25 nm thin film of poly (4-tert-butylstyrene) vitrifies 50 K
lower than in bulk. This record sets the largest depression in thermal glass transition …

The adsorbed layer on a solid surface plays a crucial role in the dynamics of
nanoconfinement polymer materials. However, the influence of the adsorbed layer is …

We report the structural relaxation process of irreversibly adsorbed polymer chains via
thermal annealing that lie flat on a solid (“flattened chains”). Amorphous polystyrene and …

The spatially heterogeneous dynamics in supported ultrathin polymer films are widely
recognized to explain their unique thickness-dependent physical properties. In this paper …

The stability or wettability of thin polymer films on solids is of vital interest in traditional
technologies as well as in new emerging nanotechnologies. We report here that nanoscale …