Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers Under Nanoscale Confinment: Glass Transition

Presentations

• Calorimetry of Polymer Nanoparticles

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 18, 2013, 8:00 AM – March 18, 2013, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Rodney Priestley

    • Princeton University

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• Viscoelasticity of Ultra Thin Films Probed via Temperature-Controlled Quartz Crystal Microbalance With Dissipation

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 8:36 AM – March 18, 2013, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Jodie Lutkenhaus

    • Texas A\&M University
    • Texas A&M University
    • Texas A\&M Unversity

  • Joe Puhr

    • Texas A\&M Unversity

  • Ajay Vidyasagar

    • Texas A\&M Unversity

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• Making the Tg-Confinement Effect Disappear in Thin Polystyrene Films: Good Physics vs. Inappropriate Analysis

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 8:48 AM – March 18, 2013, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • John Torkelson

    • Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208-3120
    • Northwestern University

  • Lawrence Chen

    • Northwestern University

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• Reduced Calorimetric Tg in Confined Thin Polymer Films with Controlled Interface

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 9:00 AM – March 18, 2013, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Gi Xue

    • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Nanjing Univeristy
    • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University
    • Nanjing University

  • Jiao Chen

    • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University

  • Dongshan Zhou

    • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Nanjing Univeristy
    • Nanjing University
    • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University

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• The Calorimetric Glass Transition of Polystyrene Ultrathin Films

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 9:12 AM – March 18, 2013, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Siyang Gao

    • Texas Tech University

  • Yung P. Koh

    • Texas Tech University

  • Sindee S. Simon

    • Texas Tech University

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• Local Variation of Fragility and Glass Transition Temperature of Ultra-thin Supported Polymer Films

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 9:24 AM – March 18, 2013, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Paul Hanakata

    • Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA

  • Jack Douglas

    • Materials Science and Engineering Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
    • NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
    • Polymer Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
    • The National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA

  • Francis Starr

    • Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
    • Physics Dept., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
    • Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459, USA

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• Fragility of an Isochorically Confined Polymer Glass

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 9:36 AM – March 18, 2013, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Chuan Zhang

    • Princeton University

  • Yunlong Guo

    • Princeton University

  • Rodney Priestley

    • Princeton University

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• Effects of aging on glass-forming polymers

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 9:48 AM – March 18, 2013, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Amit Shavit

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Robert Riggleman

    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Physical Aging of Thin Polystyrene Films Quenched and Measured Free-Standing

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 10:00 AM – March 18, 2013, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Justin Pye

    • Dept of Physics, Emory University

  • Connie Roth

    • Dept. of Physics, Emory University
    • Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329
    • Emory University
    • Dept of Physics, Emory University

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• Glass transition temperatures in nanoscale equilibrated polystyrene droplets

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 10:12 AM – March 18, 2013, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Chad Daley

    • University of Waterloo

  • James Forrest

    • University of Waterloo

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• Confinement effects on the glass transition of nanolayered polymers

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 10:24 AM – March 18, 2013, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • David Simmons

    • University of Akron Department of Polymer Engineering

  • Ryan Lang

    • The University of Akron Department of Polymer Engineering

  • Mark Mackura

    • The University of Akron Department of Polymer Engineering

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• Dynamic Cluster Size Effects on the Glass Transition of Thin Films

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 10:36 AM – March 18, 2013, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Richard Wool

    • University of Delaware

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• How does Tg reduction affect the chain mobility in confined PS films?

  ORAL

  March 18, 2013, 10:48 AM – March 18, 2013, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Bulent Akgun

    • Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • Center for Neutron Research, NIST, Gaithersburg
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland

  • Michael Dimitriou

    • NIST Center for Neutron Research

  • Sushil K. Satija

    • NIST Center for Neutron Research

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