Glass Transition Behavior of Polymer Films of Nanoscopic Dimensions

Arlette R. C. Baljon; Maarten H. M. Van Weert; Regina Barber DeGraaff; Rajesh Khare

doi:10.1021/ma048819a

Glass Transition Behavior of Polymer Films of Nanoscopic Dimensions

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v2 Materials Science

Authors: Arlette R. C. Baljon , Maarten H. M. Van Weert , Regina Barber DeGraaff , Rajesh Khare

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Abstract

Glass transition behavior of nanoscopically thin polymer films is investigated by means of molecular dynamics simulations. A thin polymer film that is composed of bead-spring model chains and supported on an idealized, fcc lattice substrate surface is studied in this work.

Keywords

glass transition polymer films molecular dynamics bead-spring model

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0408523,
  title  = {Glass Transition Behavior of Polymer Films of Nanoscopic Dimensions},
  author = {Arlette R. C. Baljon and Maarten H. M. Van Weert and Regina Barber DeGraaff and Rajesh Khare},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0408523},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

in review, macromolecules

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