… formers has informed our understanding about polymer glasses, studies of polymer glasses
represent a rich, well-categorized system for testing theoretical ideas about glass formers in …

… coupled to the thermodynamics of polymer glasses and, in particular, to the glass transition.
As a … Within the complex relaxational pattern of polymer glasses, localized motions, that is …

… polymer systems and the other involving the development of a quantitative theory capable
of satisfactorily predicting aging behavior for a variety of polymer … below the glass transition …

… Physical aging is particularly important for polymers, because … glass transition temperature
T5 the polymer is used, and T values are lower for polymers than for most inorganic glasses. …

… first stable polymer glasses using a … polymer films with enhanced values of T g and superior
kinetic stability. Relative to the standard glass formed on cooling at standard rates, glasses …

We analyzed the glassy-state structural relaxation of polymers near surfaces and interfaces
by monitoring fluorescence in multilayer films. Relative to that of bulk, the rate of structural …

… polymer chains. We used an optical photobleaching technique to quantitatively measure
changes in molecular mobility during the active deformation of a polymer glass [… polymer glasses…

Molecular simulations of a model, deeply quenched polymeric glass show that the elastic
moduli become strongly inhomogeneous at length scales comprising several tens of monomers…

… A polymeric glass is not in thermodynamic equilibrium and … are of interest in this work,
polymeric glasses are solids for all … ” elastic response of a glass to small deformation, we consider …

… POLYMER MODEL AND SIMULATIONS Our model of a polymer glass builds upon extensive
simulations of polymer … The solid consists of linear polymers each containing N beads. …