Over recent decades, poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid)(PLGA) based nano-and micro-drug
delivery vehicles have been rapidly developed since PLGA was approved by the Food and …

Conjugated polymers are emerging as promising building blocks for a broad range of
modern applications including skin‐like electronics, wearable optoelectronics, and sensory …

The noncrystalline glassy state of matter plays a role in virtually all fields of materials science
and offers complementary properties to those of the crystalline counterpart. The caveat of the …

We provide a perspective on polymer glass formation, with an emphasis on models in which
the fluid entropy and collective particle motion dominate the theoretical description and data …

Physical ageing is the generic term for irreversible processes in glassy materials resulting
from molecular rearrangements. One formalism for describing such ageing processes …

Antiplasticization of glassy polymers, arising from the addition of small amounts of
plasticizer, was examined to highlight the developments that have taken place over the last …

Interfaces of glassy materials such as thin films, blends, and composites create strong
unidirectional gradients to the local heterogeneous dynamics that can be used to elucidate …

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 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 …

This feature article presents many experimental results in order to explain and advance our
understanding on crazing during tensile deformation of glassy polymers. Ample data are …