Within the interfacial region of the substrate, polymer chains can form the inner irreversibly
adsorbed and outer loosely adsorbed layers upon annealing. Owing to their different …

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 …

Understanding the dynamic behavior of polymer chains adsorbed onto a solid surface is of
great importance for elucidating polymer–surface interactions. Here by using sum frequency …

Confined at the nanoscale level, polymers crystallize much slower than in bulk, and in some
cases, the formation of ordered structure is inhibited within extremely long experimental time …

We present a detailed computational study on the temperature effect of the dynamics and
the interfacial width of unentangled cis-1, 4 polybutadiene linear chains confined between …

Dewetting of a polymer thin film is directly correlated to the interface with the substrate. We
thus combined sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy and laser …

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 …

We investigated the segmental mobility distribution at the poly (methyl methacrylate) film
surface within the depth of 9.0 nm, by measuring the surface reorganization of fluorinated …

Adhesion is a molecular event where polymer chains contact with a material surface to form
an interfacial layer. To obtain a better understanding of the adhesion on a molecular scale …

High molecular weight polymer solutions have a powerful tendency to deposit adsorbed
layers when exposed to even mildly attractive surfaces. The equilibrium properties of these …