X‐ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Studies of Surfaces and Thin Films

SK Sinha, Z Jiang, LB Lurio - Advanced Materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The technique of X‐ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS) is reviewed as a method
for studying the relatively slow dynamics of materials on time scales ranging from …

Synchrotron X-ray techniques for the investigation of structures and dynamics in interfacial systems

L Cristofolini - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2014 - Elsevier
This review focuses on recent results obtained by synchrotron X-ray techniques applied to
the characterization of interfacial systems, with main emphasis on flat interfaces and on …

Formation mechanism of high-density, flattened polymer nanolayers adsorbed on planar solids

N Jiang, J Shang, X Di, MK Endoh, T Koga - Macromolecules, 2014 - ACS Publications
Thermal annealing is one of the most indispensable polymer fabrication processes and
plays essential roles in controlling morphologies and properties of polymeric materials. We …

Kinetics of irreversible chain adsorption

C Housmans, M Sferrazza, S Napolitano - Macromolecules, 2014 - ACS Publications
Recent experimental evidence showed a strong correlation between the behavior of
polymers under confinement and the presence of a layer irreversibly adsorbed onto the …

Double glass transition temperatures of poly (methyl methacrylate) confined in alumina nanotube templates

L Li, D Zhou, D Huang, G Xue - Macromolecules, 2014 - ACS Publications
Recently, confinement of polymers with different geometries has become a research hotspot.
Here, we report the dramatic deviation of glass transition behaviors of poly (methyl …

Melt crystallization/dewetting of ultrathin PEO films via carbon dioxide annealing: the effects of polymer adsorbed layers

M Asada, N Jiang, L Sendogdular, J Sokolov… - Soft Matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The effects of CO2 annealing on the melting and subsequent melt crystallization processes
of spin-cast poly (ethylene oxide)(PEO) ultrathin films (20–100 nm in thickness) prepared on …

Modeling of molecular gas adsorption isotherms on porous materials with hybrid PC-SAFT–DFT

G Shen, X Lu, X Ji - Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2014 - Elsevier
The developed hybrid PC-SAFT–DFT model, a coupling of density functional theory (DFT)
with perturbed-chain statistical associating fluid theory (PC-SAFT), was used to study the …

Interphase of a Polymer at a Solid Interface

HJ Butt, H Duran, W Egger, F Faupel… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of a chemically realistic model of atactic short-
chain polystyrene between gold surfaces (111) and positron annihilation lifetime …

Dispersion of polymer grafted nanoparticles in polymer nanocomposite films: Insights from surface x-ray scattering and microscopy

S Chandran, N Begam, JK Basu - Journal of Applied Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Dispersion of nanoparticles in polymer nanocomposite films determines the application
potential of these systems as novel materials with unique physical properties. Grafting …

Anomalous decoupling of translational and rotational motion under 1D confinement, evidences from crystallization and diffusion experiments

S Napolitano, M Wübbenhorst - Dynamics in geometrical confinement, 2014 - Springer
The molecular diffusion is intrinsically bound to the viscosity of the environment via the
Stokes–Einstein (SE) relation, fixing an equality between the energetic barrier for …