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Understanding Physical Aging in Ultrathin Polymer Films via Molecular Simulations

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Physical aging in glassy polymer films has attracted much attention in the past two decades due to its strong correlation with the lifetime of polymer-based nano-devices. However, understanding the physical aging from the simulation point of view is still a big challenge due to the huge differences between the simulation and experimental time scales (microseconds vs. hours, days, and even years). Recently, we made a survey on the free volume diffusion and annihilation (FVDA) model as employed in dynamic Monte Carlo simulations to study the volume contraction of ultrathin polymer films. In this chapter, based on our recently developed simulation route, we discuss in what sense the simulation results could be applied to understand the physical aging in experiments. Some new insights, such as the slowing down of accelerated aging at extremely small thickness, and the existence of new confinement length scale in ultrathin polymer films based on the inversed free volume diffusion process, are also discussed.

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Acknowledgments

The results reported here were obtained in fruitful collaboration with Prof. Simone Napolitano. The authors’ research was supported by NSFC (Grant Nos. 20825415 and 21274061), National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB606100), and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2013M531319).

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Tang, Q., Hu, W. (2015). Understanding Physical Aging in Ultrathin Polymer Films via Molecular Simulations. 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_4

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