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 …

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 …

Tribology is the study of interactions between surfaces or interfaces in relative motion
(“tribos” means “to rub” in Greek). It includes the phenomena of friction, adhesion, and wear …

Previous studies had demonstrated that the T g of polymer thin films is strongly dependent
on the interactions, γs, between the polymer and the underlying substrate. We present a …

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

We demonstrate the accurate nanoscale map** of near-surface loss and storage moduli
on a polystyrene–polypropylene blend with contact resonance force microscopy (CR-FM) …

Surface glass transition temperature,, of monodisperse polystyrene (PS) films was
determined from the temperature dependence of lateral force at a given scanning rate. The …

Nanometer-scale elastic moduli and yield strengths of polycarbonate (PC) and polystyrene
(PS) thin films were measured with atomic force microscopy (AFM) indentation …

Polythiophene and its derivatives (PTs) are a class of conjugated polymers, and their
electronic, optical, and thermodynamic properties in the bulk solid state have been studied …

A quantitative method, using temperature-controlled friction force microscopy (FFM), has
been developed to determine the frictional (dissipative) character of thin polymer films. With …