When cooled or pressurized, polymer melts exhibit a tremendous reduction in molecular
mobility. If the process is performed at a constant rate, the structural relaxation time of the …

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 …

Conditions of rapid processing often drive polymers to adopt nonequilibrium molecular
conformations, which, in turn, can give rise to structural, dynamical, and mechanical …

Physical aging is a ubiquitous phenomenon in glassy materials and originates from the fact
that they are generally out-of-equilibrium. Due to the technological and fundamental …

Polymers are increasingly being used in applications with nanostructured morphologies
where almost all polymer molecules are within a few tens to hundreds of nanometers from …

The paradigmatic view on the transformation of a supercooled liquid into a glass, so‐called
vitrification or glass transition, and the subsequent time evolution of the non‐equilibrium …

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

The structural dynamics of polymers and simple liquids confined at the nanometer scale has
been intensively investigated in the last two decades in order to test the validity of theories …

Two challenging scientific disciplines, ie, the physics of glasses [Anderson, Science 267,
1615 (1995); Kennedy and Norman, Science 309, 75 (2005)] and interface chemistry …

The effects of nanoconfinement on the glass-transition temperature (T g) and fragility index
(m) of thin polymer films, eg, polystyrene (PS), can be substantial. We recently demonstrated …