Ultrastable glasses (mostly prepared from the vapor phase under optimized deposition
conditions) represent a unique class of materials with low enthalpies and high kinetic …

Surfaces mediate the formation of stable glasses (SGs) upon physical vapor deposition
(PVD) for a wide range of glass formers. The thermodynamic and kinetic stability of SGs and …

The nature of alterations to dynamics and vitrification in the nanoscale vicinity of interfaces—
commonly referred to as “nanoconfinement” effects on the glass transition—has been an …

Molecular, polymeric, colloidal, and other classes of liquids can exhibit very large, spatially
heterogeneous alterations of their dynamics and glass transition temperature when confined …

The depth to which the local glass transition temperature T g and alpha-relaxations are
perturbed near a boundary is believed to be related to the characteristic length scales …

Nanometrically thin glassy films depart strikingly from the behavior of their bulk counterparts.
We investigate whether the dynamical differences between a bulk and thin film polymeric …

The understanding of the dynamics of a glass above its devitrification temperature remains
incomplete. Here, we build a spatio-temporal map of the relaxation dynamics of a highly …

Tobacco mosaic virus is used as a probe to measure surface diffusion of ultrathin films of N,
N′-Bis (3-methylphenyl)-N, N′-diphenylbenzidine (TPD)(12 nm< h< 53 nm, where h is the …

Enabled by surface-mediated equilibration, physical vapour deposition can create high-
density stable glasses comparable with liquid-quenched glasses aged for millions of years …

Properties of polymers in polymer nanocomposites and nanopores have been shown to
deviate from their respective bulk properties due to physical confinement as well as polymer …