Glass Transition Behavior of Polymer Films of Nanoscopic Dimensions
Arlette R. C. Baljon, Maarten H. M. Van Weert, Regina Barber DeGraaff, Rajesh Khare
Abstract
Glass transition behavior of nanoscopically thin polymer films is investigated by means of molecular dynamics simulations. A thin polymer film that is composed of bead-spring model chains and supported on an idealized, fcc lattice substrate surface is studied in this work.
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