Overview
- Presents the state of the art on the phenomena of nano-confinement for a large class of polymers and low molecular weight glass formers
- Shows how confinement effects are related to non-equilibrium phases
- Collects the latest and most important experiments and simulations on nanoconfined systems
- Features contributions from some of the most active and respected researchers in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Soft and Biological Matter (SOBIMA)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Equilibration and Physical Aging
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Glass Transition and Material Properties
Keywords
- Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
- Chain Confiment in Ultrathin Films
- Characterization of Confinement Effects
- Confined Glass-Forming Liquids
- Irreversible Chain Adsorption
- Irreversibly Adsorbed Polymer Layers
- Molecular Dynamics in Confinement
- Nanoscopic Confinement
- Out-of-equilibrium Glass Dynamics
- Physical Aging of Polymer Glasses
- Polymers under Confinement
- Surface Dynamics of Thin Polymer Films
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Confined Soft Matter
Book Subtitle: Irreversible Adsorption, Physical Aging and Glass Transition at the Nanoscale
Editors: Simone Napolitano
Series Title: Soft and Biological Matter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21948-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21947-9Published: 14 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37291-4Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21948-6Published: 28 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2213-1736
Series E-ISSN: 2213-1744
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations, 71 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Physical Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Polymer Sciences, Complex Systems, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems