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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS
Volume 44, Issue 20, Pages 2996-3005Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/polb.20921
Keywords
calorimetry; glass transition; polystyrene; thin films
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A differential AC-chip calorimeter capable of measuring the step in heat capacity at the glass transition in nanometer-thin films is described. Because of the differential setup, pJ/K sensitivity is achieved. Heat capacity can be measured for sample masses below 1 ng in broad temperature range as needed for the study of the glass transition in nanometer-thin polymeric films. Relative accuracy is sufficient to investigate the changes in heat capacity as the step at the glass transition of polystyrene. The step is about 25% of the total heat capacity of polystyrene. The calorimeter allows for the frequency dependent measurement of complex heat capacity in the frequency range from 1 Hz to 1 kHz. The glass transition in thin polystyrene films (50-4 nm) was determined at well-defined experimental time scales. No thickness dependency of the glass transition temperature was observed within the error limits (+/- 3 K)-neither at constant frequency (40 Hz) nor for the trace in the activation diagram (1 Hz-1 kHz). (c) 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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