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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 115, Issue 38, Pages 11044-11052Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp205205x
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Stepwise cooling molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been carried out on the bulk and film models for poly (ethylene oxide) (PEO) to understand glass transition of amorphous polymer films. Three types of properties-density, energy, and dynamics-are computed and plotted against the temperature for the two systems. It has been confirmed that all these properties can reveal glass transition in both PEO bulk and film systems. All the determined glass transition temperatures (T-g's) drop in the same order of magnitude to the experimental data available. Among various methods, the T-g's obtained from the density and energy data are close to each other if the same space regions are defined, which can suggest the same free volume theory, and dynamic T-g's obtained from mean-squared displacements (MSDs) are highest, which can suggest the kinetic theory for structural relaxation. Consistently, all these T-g's obtained using different methods show that the T-g's of PEO film are lower than those of PEO bulk. The free surface layers of polymer films dictate this offset.
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