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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 153, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/5.0022958
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- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- SBQMI QuEST fellowship - Canada First Research Excellence Fund
- Quantum Materials and Future Technologies Program
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We investigate the near-surface relaxation of freestanding atactic polystyrene films with molecular dynamics simulations. As in previous coarse-grained simulations, relaxation times for backbone segments and phenyl rings are linked to their bulk relaxation times via a power-law coupling relation. Variation of the coupling exponent with distance from the surface is consistent with depth-dependent activation barriers. We also quantify a reduction in dynamical heterogeneity at the interface, which can be interpreted in the framework of cooperative models for glassy dynamics.
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