Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2015

Cooperative strings and glassy interfaces

K. Dalnoki-Veress
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E. Raphael
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J.A. Forrest
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We introduce a minimal theory of glass formation based on the ideas of molecular crowding and resultant string-like cooperative rearrangement, and address the effects of free interfaces. In the bulk case, we obtain a scaling expression for the number of particles taking part in cooperative strings, and we recover the Adam–Gibbs description of glassy dynamics. Then, by including thermal dilatation, the Vogel–Fulcher–Tammann relation is derived. Moreover, the random and string-like characters of the cooperative rearrangement allow us to predict a temperature-dependent expression for the cooperative length ξ of bulk relaxation. Finally, we explore the influence of sample boundaries when the system size becomes comparable to ξ. The theory is in agreement with measurements of the glass-transition temperature of thin polymer films, and allows quantification of the temperature-dependent thickness hm of the interfacial mobile layer.

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hal-01265545 , version 1 (06-01-2025)

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Thomas Salez, Justin Salez, K. Dalnoki-Veress, E. Raphael, J.A. Forrest. Cooperative strings and glassy interfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015, 112 (27), pp.8227-8231. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1503133112⟩. ⟨hal-01265545⟩
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