Temperature-Independent Rescaling of the Local Activation Barrier Drives Free Surface Nanoconfinement Effects on Segmental-Scale Translational Dynamics near T g

• Published in: ACS macro letters Vol. 7; no. 11; pp. 1295 - 1301
• Main Authors: Diaz-Vela, Daniel, Hung, Jui-Hsiang, Simmons, David S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 20.11.2018

Near-interface alterations in dynamics and glass formation behavior have been the subject of extensive study for the past two decades, both because of their practical importance and in the hope of revealing underlying correlation lengths underpinning glass transition more generally. Here we employ m...