Fragility-Confinement Effects: Apparent Universality as a Function of Scaled Thickness in Films of Freely Deposited, Linear Polymer and Its Absence in Densely Grafted Brushes

Macromolecules

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1331-1343

  Lan, Tian ^a   Torkelson, John M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POLYMERS;

ATTRACTIVE INTERACTIONS; CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; ELLIPSOMETRY MEASUREMENTS; KINETIC FRAGILITY; LINEAR POLYMER CHAINS; NANO-SCALE CONFINEMENTS; STRONG CORRELATION; SUBSTRATE SURFACE;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 84961142289     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02489     Document Type: Article

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