Is the reduction in tracer diffusivity under nanoscopic confinement related to a frustrated segmental mobility?

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 844-848

  Napolitano, Simone ^a   Rotella, Cinzia ^a   Wübbenhorst, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

confinement effects; glass transition; tracer diffusivity; ultrathin polymer films

Indexed keywords

BULK VALUE; CAPACITIVE DILATOMETRY; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; DIFFERENT THICKNESS; DIFFUSIVITIES; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; MASS TRANSPORT; NANO SCALE; NANOSCOPIC CONFINEMENT; SEGMENTAL MOBILITY; STOKES-EINSTEIN RELATION; TARGET-SUBSTRATE; TRACER DIFFUSIVITY; TRACER MOLECULES; TRANSLATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; ULTRATHIN POLYMER FILMS;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFUSION; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; PLASTIC FILMS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

POLYMER FILMS;

GLASS; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DIFFUSION; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

ADSORPTION; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; DIFFUSION; GLASS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79957771855     PISSN: 10221336     EISSN: 15213927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201100029     Document Type: Article

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