Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Confined Soft Matter Irreversible Adsorption, Physical Aging and Glass Transition at the Nanoscale /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Napolitano, Simone (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Soft and Biological Matter,
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Polymers.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Nanotechnology.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Physical Chemistry.; Polymer Sciences.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.

This book presents cutting-edge experimental and computational results and provides comprehensive coverage on the impact of non-equilibrium structure and dynamics on the properties of soft matter confined to the nanoscale. The book is organized into three main sections: ·         Equilibration and p...

Table of Contents:

• 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.