Confinement Effects on Chain Entanglement in Free-Standing

Jun 8, 2011 - The authors thank the National Science Foundation's Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (ECCS 0506941) for their generous support ...
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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 (