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Journal Article | FZJ-2013-01513 |
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2013
APS
College Park, Md.
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Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/5045 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.108303
Abstract: We present neutron spin echo experiments that address the much debated topic of dynamic phenomena in polymer melts that are induced by interacting with a confining surface. We find an anchored surface layer that internally is highly mobile and not glassy as heavily promoted in the literature. The polymer dynamics in confinement is, rather, determined by two phases, one fully equal to the bulk polymer and another that is partly anchored at the surface. By strong topological interaction, this phase confines further chains with no direct contact to the surface. These form the often invoked interphase, where the full chain relaxation is impeded through the interaction with the anchored chains.
Keyword(s): Polymers, Soft Nano Particles and Proteins (1st) ; Key Technologies (1st) ; Nano Science and Technology (1st) ; Soft Condensed Matter (2nd)
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