ARTICLE pubs.acs.org/Macromolecules
Confinement Effects on Chain Entanglement in Free-Standing Polystyrene Ultrathin Films Jeremy M. Rathfon,†,‡ Robert W. Cohn,‡ Alfred J. Crosby,† Jonathan P. Rothstein,† and Gregory N. Tew*,† †
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States ‡ ElectroOptics Research Institute and Nanotechnology Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, United States
bS Supporting Information ABSTRACT: A study of the confinement effects on chain entanglements in free-standing ultrathin (