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Cooperative strings in glassy nanoparticles
Title: | Cooperative strings in glassy nanoparticles |
Authors: | Arutkin, Maxence Browse this author | Raphael, Elie Browse this author | Forrest, James A. Browse this author | Salez, Thomas Browse this author |
Issue Date: | 6-Jun-2016 |
Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
Journal Title: | Soft matter |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page: | 141 |
End Page: | 146 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1039/c6sm00724d |
PMID: | 27284781 |
Abstract: | Motivated by recent experimental results on glassy polymer nanoparticles, we develop a minimal theoretical framework for the glass transition in spherical confinement. This is accomplished using our cooperative-string model for supercooled dynamics, that was successful at recovering the bulk phenomenology and describing the thin-film anomalies. In particular, we obtain predictions for the mobile-layer thickness as a function of temperature, and for the effective glass-transition temperature as a function of the radius of the spherical nanoparticle - including the existence of a critical particle radius below which vitrification never occurs. Finally, we compare the theoretical results to experimental data on polystyrene from the recent literature, and we discuss the latter. |
Type: | article (author version) |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/65941 |
Appears in Collections: | 国際連携研究教育局 : GI-CoRE (Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education : GI-CoRE) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: SALEZ THOMAS BLAISE
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