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Structures and Dynamics of Adsorbed Polymer Nanolayers on Planar Solids

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Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Confined Soft Matter

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Solid-polymer interfaces play crucial roles in the multidisciplinary field of nanotechnology and are the confluence of physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. There is now growing evidence that polymer chains irreversibly adsorb even onto weakly attractive solid surfaces, forming a nanometer-thick adsorbed polymer layer (“adsorbed polymer nanolayers”). In this Chapter, we review our recent experimental results on the structures and dynamics of the adsorbed polymer chains. Furthermore, we shed light on the mechanism giving rise to the extraordinary properties of the adsorbed nanolayers and on how these properties can propagate into the film interior over distances of several tens of nanometers, resulting in heterogeneities of local crystalline structures, viscosity, interdiffusive motions (in the melts and a solvent) of supported polymer thin films.

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Jiang, N., Endoh, M.K., Koga, T. (2015). Structures and Dynamics of Adsorbed Polymer Nanolayers on Planar Solids. In: Napolitano, S. (eds) Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Confined Soft Matter. Soft and Biological Matter. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21948-6_6

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