Glass transitions of freely suspended polymer films

dc.creatorde Gennes, Pierre-Gilles
dc.date2000-09-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:38:42Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:38:42Z
dc.descriptionWe present a modified version of our "sliding model", where chain arcs, between two contacts at the surface, may move if all the barriers along the arc are weaker than a certain threshold.An important advance of the revised model is that the high limiting chain lengths N* observed in the experiments are naturally accoundted for. In this model, a film of thickness h, smaller than the coil size, can show either a "sandwich" structure with two mobile sublayers (at low temperatures T<T(h)), or a single mobile layer at T>T(h). But the accident occurring at T=T(h), does not necessarily coincide with the apparent glass transition, determined by the intersection of two tangents in a plot of thickness versus temperature.
dc.description11 pages, 4 EPS figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009176
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009176
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/16768
dc.subjectSoft Condensed Matter
dc.titleGlass transitions of freely suspended polymer films
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