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Slow process in confined polymer melts: Layer exchange dynamics at a polymer solid interface

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Employing Molecular Dynamics simulations of a chemically realistic model of 1,4-polybutadiene between graphite walls we show that the mass exchange between layers close to the walls is a slow process already in the melt state. For the glass transition of confined polymers this process competes with the slowing down due to packing effects and intramolecular rotation barriers.

Source: Physical Review E

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.050801

Authors: L. Yelash, P. Virnau, K. Binder, W. Paul

Institutions: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Language: English

Topic: Material Dynamics and Properties

Subfield: Materials Chemistry

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2058714440

FWCI: 3.089

Cites: 33

Cited by: 68

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