Polymer nanocomposite dielectrics possess exceptional electric properties that are absent
in the pristine dielectric polymers. The matrix/particle interface in polymer nanocomposite …

The glass transition temperature (T g) of polymer thin films, one of the most important
parameters to characterize the relaxation behavior of polymer chains in a thin film, has been …

Usually a surface or an interface is well-defined with little diffusion from one side of the
surface or interface to the other, with the length scale being on the order of one to several …

Polymer adsorption proceeds through a wide variety of metastable states due to kinetic
constraints originating from the pinning of segments on solid interfaces, creating an …

We present a detailed analysis of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of
semiflexible polymer melts in contact with a strongly adsorbing substrate. We have …

The adsorbed polymer layer on the inorganic solid surface is crucial in improving the
physical properties of composite nanomaterials; therefore, the properties could be tuned by …

The relaxation dynamics of polyisoprene (PI) and nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) chains at
the SiO2 interface were directly probed as a function of distance from the SiO2 surface using …

We report the structural relaxation process of irreversibly adsorbed polymer chains via
thermal annealing that lie flat on a solid (“flattened chains”). Amorphous polystyrene and …

Chemical reactions are the most important phenomena in chemistry. However, chemical
reactions at buried solid/solid interfaces are very difficult to study in situ. In this research, the …

The local conformation of polystyrene (PS) and deuterated PS at the interface with quartz
substrates, which were covered with phenyl groups using phenyltrimethoxysilane (PTS) …