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 …

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

To understand the role of collective motion in the often large changes in interfacial molecular
mobility observed in polymer films, we investigate the extent of collective motion in the …

The concept of free volume underpins the variations in polymer dynamics. Annihilation of
free-volume holes through diffusion to surfaces has been proposed to determine the …

Ultrathin polymer films exhibit a liquidlike mobile surface layer near the free surface, which
plays an important role in the size-dependent physical properties of polymer nanomaterials …

In polymer/nanoparticle composite (PNC) thin films, polymer chains experience strong
confinement effects not only at the free surface area but also from nanoparticles (NPs). In …

Relation between cooperativity and fragility of segmental dynamics is a crucial issue in
elucidating the viscous slowdown of supercooled polymer liquids. The experimental results …

The non-Arrhenius behavior of segmental dynamics in glass-forming liquids is one of the
most profound mysteries in soft matter physics. In this article, we propose a dynamically …

Confined glasses and their anomalous interfacial rheology raise important questions in
fundamental research and numerous practical applications. In this work, we study the …

Previously, we developed a minimal model based on random cooperative strings for the
relaxation of supercooled liquids in the bulk and near free interfaces, and we recovered …