In this article, the effects of size and confinement at the nanometre size scale on both the
melting temperature, T m, and the glass transition temperature, T g, are reviewed. Although …

In this article, we present a detailed account of important recent developments in the rapidly
evolving area of glass transitions in thin polymer films. We review the case of polymer films …

Supercooled liquids and glasses are important for current and developing technologies.
Here we provide perspective on recent progress in this field. The interpretation of …

Despite the decade-long study of the effect of nanoconfinement on the glass-transition
temperature (T g) of amorphous materials, the quest to probe the distribution of T gs in …

Control of blend morphology at the microscopic scale is critical for optimizing the power
conversion efficiency of plastic solar cells based on blends of conjugated polymer with …

We report the first measurements of the glass transition temperature T g for thin freely
standing polystyrene (PS) films. We have used Brillouin light scattering to measure T g for …

The properties of soft-matter thin films (eg liquid films, polymer coatings, Langmuir-Blodgett
multilayers) nowadays play an important role in materials science. They are also very …

Owing to the improvement of properties including conductivity, toughness and permeability,
polymer nanocomposites are slated for applications ranging from membranes to fuel cells …

We have used Brillouin light scattering and ellipsometry to measure the glass transition
temperature T g of thin polystyrene (PS) films as a function of the film thickness h for two …

The thermomechanical responses of polymers, which provide limitations to their practical
use, are favourably altered by the addition of trace amounts of a nanofiller. However, the …