Dynamics of glass-forming materials confined in thin films

1 January 1999

journal article
Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

Vol. 11 (10A) , A189-A197
https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/11/10a/014

Abstract

By considering the effect of confinement of the collective motion of glass-forming molecules, we show how the relaxation time of molecules is expected to vary across a thin film and as a function of the film thickness. The results of these calculations are compared with available experimental data.

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