Polymer coatings of nanometric thickness are about to enter in everyday life as part of a
wide range of applications such as protective layers, stimuli-responsive membranes or as …

Polymers are increasingly being used in applications with nanostructured morphologies
where almost all polymer molecules are within a few tens to hundreds of nanometers from …

Many emerging materials, such as ultrastable glasses, of interest for phone displays and
OLED television screens, owe their properties to a gradient of enhanced mobility at the …

Over the past three decades, studies have indicated a mobile surface layer with steep
gradients on glass surfaces. Among various glasses, polymers are unique because …

Molecular, polymeric, colloidal, and other classes of liquids can exhibit very large, spatially
heterogeneous alterations of their dynamics and glass transition temperature when confined …

Understanding the underlying nature of dynamical correlations believed to drive the bulk
glass transition is a long-standing problem. Here we show that the form of spatial gradients …

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 …

Two challenging scientific disciplines, ie, the physics of glasses [Anderson, Science 267,
1615 (1995); Kennedy and Norman, Science 309, 75 (2005)] and interface chemistry …

Surface diffusion is vastly faster than bulk diffusion in some glasses, but only moderately
enhanced in others. We show that this variation is closely linked to bulk fragility, a common …

Molecules at a liquid/vapor interface have different organizations and mobilities from those
in the bulk. These differences potentially influence the rate of crystal nucleation, but the …