Kremer F. (Ed.) Dynamics in Geometrical Confinement

Springer International Publishing, 2014 — 366p. — (Advances in Dielectrics) — ISBN: 978-3-319-06100-9 (eBook), 978-3-319-38079-7 (Softcover), 978-3-319-06099-6 (Hardcover).This book describes the dynamics of low molecular weight and polymeric molecules when they are constrained under conditions of geometrical confinement. It covers geometrical confinement in different dimensionalities:
(i) in nanometer thin layers or self supporting films (1-dimensional confinement)
(ii) in pores or tubes with nanometric diameters (2-dimensional confinement)
(iii) as micelles embedded in matrices (3-dimensional) or as nanodroplets.
The dynamics under such conditions have been a much discussed and central topic in the focus of intense worldwide research activities within the last two decades. The present book discusses how the resulting molecular mobility is influenced by the subtle counterbalance between surface effects (typically slowing down molecular dynamics through attractive guest/host interactions) and confinement effects (typically increasing the mobility). It also explains how these influences can be modified and tuned, e.g. through appropriate surface coatings, film thicknesses or pore diameters. "Dynamics in Confinement" sums up the present state-of-the-art and introduces to the analytical methods of choice for the study of dynamics in nanometer-scale confinement.Dielectric Relaxation of a Polybutadiene Melt at a Crystalline Graphite Surface: Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Glass Transition of Ultra-Thin Polymer Films: A Combination of Relaxation Spectroscopy with Surface Analytics
Molecular Dynamics of Condensed (Semi-) Isolated Polymer Chains
Molecular Dynamics of Poly(
Rotational Diffusion of Guest Molecules Confined in Uni-directional Nanopores
Rotational and Translational Diffusion of Ionic Liquids in Silica Nanopores
Polymer Nanofluidics by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
Heterogeneous Dynamics of Multilayered Thin Polymer Films
Molecular Mobility and Phase Transformations of Several Low Molecular Weight Glass Formers Confined to Nanoporous Silica Matrices
Deviations from Bulk Glass Transition Dynamics of Small Molecule Glass Formers: Some Scenarios in Relation to the Dimensionality of the Confining Geometry
Anomalous Decoupling of Translational and Rotational Motion Under 1D Confinement, Evidences from Crystallization and Diffusion Experiments
Dynamic Calorimetric Glass Transition in Thin Polymer Films
Equilibrium and Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics in Confined Polymers and Other Glass Forming Systems by Dielectric Spectroscopy and Calorimetric Techniques