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Polymer glasses

From gas to nanoglobular glass

Nature Materials volume 11, pages 267–268 (2012)Cite this article

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When quenching a liquid to form a glass, order-of-magnitude changes in cooling speed have small effects on the glass's properties. It is now shown that laser-assisted vapour deposition produces nanostructured glassy polymer films with a higher glass transition temperature and lower density than conventional quenched polymer glasses.

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Figure 1: Pulsed-laser evaporation and deposition of polymer molecules to form ultrastable, low-density polymer glasses1.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, 53706, WI, USA

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  2. School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, 53705, WI, USA

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Ediger, M., Yu, L. From gas to nanoglobular glass. Nature Mater 11, 267–268 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3281

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