Abstract:
:There is significant variation in the reported magnitude and even the sign of [Formula: see text] shifts in thin polymer films with nominally the same chemistry, film thickness, and supporting substrate. The implicit assumption is that methods used to estimate [Formula: see text] in bulk materials are relevant for inferring dynamic changes in thin films. To test the validity of this assumption, we perform molecular simulations of a coarse-grained polymer melt supported on an attractive substrate. As observed in many experiments, we find that [Formula: see text] based on thermodynamic criteria (temperature dependence of film height or enthalpy) decreases with decreasing film thickness, regardless of the polymer-substrate interaction strength ε. In contrast, we find that [Formula: see text] based on a dynamic criterion (relaxation of the dynamic structure factor) also decreases with decreasing thickness when ε is relatively weak, but [Formula: see text] increases when ε exceeds the polymer-polymer interaction strength. We show that these qualitatively different trends in [Formula: see text] reflect differing sensitivities to the mobility gradient across the film. Apparently, the slowly relaxing polymer segments in the substrate region make the largest contribution to the shift of [Formula: see text] in the dynamic measurement, but this part of the film contributes less to the thermodynamic estimate of [Formula: see text] Our results emphasize the limitations of using [Formula: see text] to infer changes in the dynamics of polymer thin films. However, we show that the thermodynamic and dynamic estimates of [Formula: see text] can be combined to predict local changes in [Formula: see text] near the substrate, providing a simple method to infer information about the mobility gradient.
journal_name
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S Aauthors
Zhang W,Douglas JF,Starr FWdoi
10.1073/pnas.1722024115subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-05-29 00:00:00pages
5641-5646issue
22eissn
0027-8424issn
1091-6490pii
1722024115journal_volume
115pub_type
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