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Polymer films of nanoscale thickness: linear chain and star-shaped macromolecular architectures

Part of: Polymers and Soft Matter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2015

Peter F. Green ,
Emmanouil Glynos  and
Bradley Frieberg
Peter F. Green*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
Emmanouil Glynos
Affiliation:
Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas, P.O. Box 1385, Heraklion, Crete GR 71110, Greece
Bradley Frieberg
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
*
Address all correspondence to Peter F. Green atpfgreen@umich.edu
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Abstract

Applications of polymer thin films include functional coatings, flexible electronics, membranes and energy conversion. The physical properties of polymer films of nanoscale thicknesses typically differ from the bulk, due largely to entropic effects and to enthalpic interactions between the macromolecules and the external interfaces. Studies of the size-dependent physical properties of macromolecules have largely been devoted to linear chain polymers. In this Prospective, we review recent experiments and simulations that describe the structure and fascinating physical properties, from wetting to the glass transition, of star-shaped macromolecules. The properties of these molecules would render them more useful than their linear chain analogs, for some specific applications.

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MRS Communications , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 423 - 434
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