Distribution of glass transition temperatures Tg in polystyrene thin films as revealed by low-energy muon spin relaxation: A comparison with neutron reflectivity results

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Kanaya, Toshiji ^a   Ogawa, Hiroki ^a   Kishimoto, Mizuki ^a   Inoue, Rintaro ^a   Suter, Andreas ^b   Prokscha, Thomas ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; DEUTERIUM; GLASS TRANSITION; POLYMER FILMS; POLYSTYRENES; REFLECTION; SPIN GLASS;

DEUTERATED POLYSTYRENE; DEUTERIUM LABELING; MUON SPIN RELAXATION; NEUTRON REFLECTIVITY; POLYMER THIN FILMS; POLYSTYRENE THIN FILMS; STRONG ORIENTATION; THIN-FILM PROPERTIES;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84940874944     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.022604     Document Type: Article

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