The glass transition in thin polymer films

By J. Forrest, K. Dalnoki-Veress. 2001

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On the equivalence between the thermodynamic and dynamic measurements of the glass transition in confined polymers (2015, background): “In essence, the influence of size on Tg of PS is near universally observed [29,52,53].”
Probing Soft Matter with the Atomic Force Microscopies: Imaging and Force Spectroscopy (2010, background): “161 , 162 This data demonstrates the sensitivity of the present micro-/nano-TA design to probe nanometer-thick polymer films.”
Effects of confinement on material behaviour at the nanometre size scale (2005, background): “The experiments performed by Dalnoki-Veress et al [193] did not give a clear indication of the change in Tg in free standing PS films, though it provided a probe of the viscous behaviour in the non-linear high strain rate regime.”
The distribution of glass-transition temperatures in nanoscopically confined glass formers (2003, background): “This interest has included attempts to make a quantitative connection between the length scale of an average cooperatively rearranging region (CRR), and the length scale at which nanoconfinement effects are observe”