Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Confined Soft Matter

Irreversible Adsorption, Physical Aging and Glass Transition at the Nanoscale

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 300 Seiten

2016 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-37291-4 (ISBN)

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This book deals with those properties of non-equilibrium soft matter that deviate greatly from the bulk properties as a result of nanoscale confinement.The ultimate physical origin of these confinement effects is not yet fully understood. At the state of the art, the discussion on confinement effects focuses on equilibrium properties, finite size effects and interfacial interactions. However this is a limited vision which does not fully capture the peculiar behaviour of soft matter under confinement and some exotic phenomena that are displayed. This volume will be organized in the following three main themes. Equilibration and physical aging: treating non-equilibrium via the formal methodology of statistical physics in bulk, we analyse physical origin of the non-equilibrium character of thin polymer. We then focus on the impact of nanoconfinement on the equilibration of glasses of soft matter (a process of tremendous technological interest, commonly known as physical aging), comparing the latest trends of polymers in experiments, simulations with those of low-molecular weight glass formers. Irreversible adsorption: the formation of stable adsorbed layers occurs at timescales much larger than the time necessary to equilibrate soft matter in bulk. Recent experimental evidence show a strong correlation between the behaviour of polymers under confinement and the presence of a layer irreversibly adsorbed onto the substrate. This correlation hints at the possibility to tailor the properties of ultrathin films by controlling the adsorption kinetics. The book reports physical aspects of irreversible chain adsorption, such as the dynamics, structure, morphology, and crystallization of adsorbed layers. Glass transition and material properties: this section of the book focuses on the spread of absolute values in materials properties of confined systems, when measured by different experimental and computation techniques and a new method to quantify the effects ofconfinement in thin films and nanocomposites independently on the investigation procedure will be presented.

Prof. Napolitano graduated in Materials Science from the University of Pisa in 2005 and two years after he received a PhD in Polymer Physics from KULeuven. After an appointment as postdoctoral researcher at the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), in 2011 he joined the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he holds a faculty position and leads the Laboratory of Polymers and Soft Matter Dynamics. His current research focuses on the molecular origin of the glass transition and the correlation between structure and dynamics in polymers and small molecules under nanoscopic confinement.

From the Contents: Kinetics of irreversible chain adsorption, new insights from experiments and simulations.- Structure and dynamics of adsorbed polymer layers.- An investigation of irreversibly adsorbed polymer layers via Local Dielectric Spectroscopy.- History dependent temporal changes of properties of thin polymer films.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Soft and Biological Matter
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 300 p. 131 illus., 71 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	555 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
Schlagworte	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
ISBN-10	3-319-37291-2 / 3319372912
ISBN-13	978-3-319-37291-4 / 9783319372914
Zustand	Neuware