Polymer coatings of nanometric thickness are about to enter in everyday life as part of a
wide range of applications such as protective layers, stimuli-responsive membranes or as …

Spin-coating is widely employed for the highly reproducible fabrication of thin film coatings
over large areas with high structural uniformity. Research in recent years has extended the …

Polymer-based composites were heralded in the 1960s as a new paradigm for materials. By
dispersing strong, highly stiff fibres in a polymer matrix, high-performance lightweight …

Polymer nanocomposites are polymer matrix composites in which the fillers are less than
100 nm in at least one dimension. These composites have exhibited extraordinarily …

Polymers with the same chemical composition can provide different properties by reducing
the dimension or simply by altering their nanostructure. The recent literature reports …

We report results of glass transition (T g) measurements for polymer thin films using atomic
force microscopy (AFM). The AFM mode, shear modulation force microscopy (SMFM) …

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been performed on a dense polymer melt
adsorbed on a solid substrate on the one side and exposed to vacuum on the other. As a …

Neutron reflectometry is used to measure polymer mobility over distances less than 200 Å as
a function of distance from an attractive solid surface and molecular size. Effective diffusion …

The crystallization of poly (ethylene− vinyl acetate) and linear low-density polyethylene
(LLDPE) films spun-cast from the polymer/toluene solutions with as-cast thickness from 460 …

We used local thermal analysis and ellipsometry to measure the glass transition
temperatures (T g) of supported thin films of poly (4-hydroxystyrene)(PHS) and hydroxy …