The glass transition temperature (T g) of polymer thin films, one of the most important
parameters to characterize the relaxation behavior of polymer chains in a thin film, has been …

The influence of interfacial interactions and annealing time on dynamics of the α-relaxation
in ultrathin poly (vinyl acetate) films deposited on different substrates has been studied using …

In our quest for reducing the size of functional devices, the thickness of polymer films has
reached values even smaller than the diameter of the unperturbed molecule. Often, such …

We present results of molecular dynamics simulations for free‐standing and supported thin
films of a nonentangled polymer melt using a coarse‐grained (bead‐spring) model. Our …

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 …

We use cooling-rate-dependent T g measurements (CR-T g) to indirectly probe the
relaxation dynamics and fragility of thin films of polystyrene (PS)/poly (2, 6-dimethyl-1, 4 …

The Tg depression and kinetic behavior of stacked polystyrene ultrathin films is investigated
by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and compared with the behavior of bulk …

Introduction. Many polymer thin film applications are intimately related to the chemical
functionality of the chain end groups. For example, use of hydrophilic end groups is a …

In the companion paper (DOI 10.1021/ma101098d), we presented a quantitative theory for
the suppression of the glass transition in a thin polymer film. Our delayed glassification (DG) …

At the nanoscale and interfaces, the relaxation behavior of polymer melts, which affects the
polymer's long-term performance in many important applications, is very different from that in …