Unambiguous Evidence for a Highly Mobile Surface Layer in Ultrathin Polymer Films by Specific Heat Spectroscopy on Blends

Macromolecules

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4936-4941

  Yin, Huajie ^a   Madkour, Sherif ^a   Schönhals, Andreas ^a  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALORIMETRY; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THIN FILMS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

CALORIMETRIC GLASS TRANSITION; MOLECULAR MOBILITY; SELF-ASSEMBLING PROCESS; SPECIFIC HEAT SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE LAYERS; THICKNESS DEPENDENCE; ULTRA-THIN POLYMER FILMS;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 84937858067     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b01259     Document Type: Article

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