The nanoconfinement effects of glassy polymer thin films on their thermal and mechanical
properties have been investigated thoroughly, especially with an emphasis on its altered …

Conditions of rapid processing often drive polymers to adopt nonequilibrium molecular
conformations, which, in turn, can give rise to structural, dynamical, and mechanical …

A photobleaching technique has been used to measure the reorientation of dilute
fluorescent probes in free-standing polymer films from 7 nm to 20 μm thick. Similar to our …

In our quest to make functional devices smaller, the thickness of polymer films has reached
values even smaller than the diameter of the unperturbed molecule. Many experimental …

The thermal properties of polymers are intricately related to the structural elements. Using
equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, we study the thermal conductivity of ultrathin …

To elucidate the mechanism underlying the effect of polymer/solid interfacial interactions on
the dynamics of thin polymer films, the glass transition of thin end-functionalized polystyrene …

Ultrathin polymers have recently been shown to exhibit different chain dynamics and
physical properties, as compared to their bulk counterparts. In this work, we measure the …

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 …

The dewetting of ultrathin polystyrene films on a liquid substrate is studied in the vicinity of
the glass transition. This technique leads to the measurement of the extensional creep …

Specific heat spectroscopy was used to study the dynamic glass transition of ultrathin poly (2-
vinyl pyridine) films (thicknesses: 405–10 nm). The amplitude and the phase angle of the …