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Using 20-million-year-old amber to test the super-Arrhenius behaviour of glass-forming systems by Zhao, Jing, Simon, Sindee L., McKenna, Gregory B.

“…Fossil amber offers the opportunity to investigate the dynamics of glass-forming materials far below the nominal glass transition temperature. This is…”
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50th Anniversary Perspective: Challenges in the Dynamics and Kinetics of Glass-Forming Polymers by McKenna, Gregory B, Simon, Sindee L

“…The phenomenology of the glass transition and the associated behavior in the near liquid and glassy states are detailed, including the cooling rate dependence…”
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Synthesis of polymers in nanoreactors: A tool for manipulating polymer properties by Zhao, Haoyu, Simon, Sindee L.

“…The use of nanoreactors to confine monomers and synthesize polymers results in changes in the reaction kinetics and polymer properties making nanoconfinement a…”
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Signatures of Structural Recovery in Polystyrene by Nanocalorimetry by Lopez, Evelyn, Simon, Sindee L

“…The intrinsic isotherm, asymmetry of approach, and memory effect experiments are performed for a high fictive temperature polystyrene glass in enthalpy space…”
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Mobility of Pressure-Densified and Pressure-Expanded Polystyrene Glasses: Dilatometry and a Test of KAHR Model by Zhao, Xiao, Grassia, Luigi, Simon, Sindee L

“…The structural recovery of pressure-densified (PDG) and, for the first time, pressure-expanded (PEG) glasses are experimentally investigated using…”
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Kinetic study of alkyl methacrylate polymerization in nanoporous confinement over a broad temperature range by Tian, Qian, Zhao, Haoyu, Simon, Sindee L.

“…The effect of nanoconfinement on the free radical polymerization of ethyl methacrylate (EMA) and n-butyl-methacrylate (BMA) with di-tert-butyl peroxide (DtBP)…”
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Calorimetric Glass Transition of Single Polystyrene Ultrathin Films by Gao, Siyang, Koh, Yung P, Simon, Sindee L

“…The calorimetric glass transition (T g) is measured for single polystyrene ultrathin films using a commercial rapid-scanning chip calorimeter as a function of…”
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Enthalpy Recovery of Polystyrene: Does a Long-Term Aging Plateau Exist? by Koh, Yung P, Simon, Sindee L

“…A glass is not in thermodynamic equilibrium below its glass transition temperature (T g), and consequently, its properties, such as enthalpy, volume, and…”
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Rheology of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids with Aromatic Functionality by Tao, Ran, Simon, Sindee L

“…A series of imidazolium-based ionic liquids with cyclic and aromatic groups and a bis­[(trifluoromethane)­sulfonyl]­amide anion were characterized using…”
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Trimerization Reaction Kinetics and T g Depression of Polycyanurate under Nanoconfinement by Lopez, Evelyn, Simon, Sindee L

“…Trimerization of a mixture containing a mono- and difunctional cyanate ester is investigated under the nanoporous confinement of silanized hydrophobic…”
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Complete Set of Enthalpy Recovery Data Using Flash DSC: Experiment and Modeling by Grassia, Luigi, Koh, Yung P, Rosa, Mattia, Simon, Sindee L

“…Enthalpy recovery of a single polystyrene thin film is quantified by both experiments using Flash DSC and modeling using a new modified TNM model. Experimental…”
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Structural recovery of a single polystyrene thin film using Flash DSC at low aging temperatures by Koh, Yung P., Gao, Siyang, Simon, Sindee L.

“…The structural recovery of a single polystyrene thin film is studied using Flash differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) for aging temperatures ranging from…”
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Enthalpy recovery of ultrathin polystyrene film using Flash DSC by Koh, Yung P., Simon, Sindee L.

“…Enthalpy recovery for a single polystyrene ultrathin film of 20 nm thickness is studied using Flash DSC over an extended time and temperature range. Results…”
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Origin of the broad endothermic peak observed at low temperatures for polystyrene and metals in Flash differential scanning calorimetry by Pallaka, Madhusudhan R., Bari, Rozana, Simon, Sindee L.

“…The glass transition behavior of polystyrene as a function of different cooling rates with scanning to two different end temperatures, 30°C and −80°C, was…”
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Modeling volume relaxation of amorphous polymers: Modification of the equation for the relaxation time in the KAHR model by Grassia, Luigi, Simon, Sindee L.

“…An expression for the relaxation time, τ, which applies both in the liquid and in the glassy state, is proposed and coupled with the kinetic equation for the…”
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The absolute heat capacity of polymer grafted nanoparticles using fast scanning calorimetry by Sakib, Nazam, Koh, Yung P., Simon, Sindee L.

“…The absolute heat capacity of a matrix‐free polystyrene grafted silica nanocomposite system is investigated using ultrafast Flash differential scanning…”
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Bulk and shear rheology of silica/polystyrene nanocomposite: Reinforcement and dynamics by Tao, Ran, Simon, Sindee L

“…Bulk and shear rheological studies were performed on a 10 wt % silica nanoparticle‐filled polystyrene nanocomposite. The limiting moduli in glassy and rubbery…”
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An Ultrastable Polymeric Glass: Amorphous Fluoropolymer with Extreme Fictive Temperature Reduction by Vacuum Pyrolysis by Yoon, Heedong, Koh, Yung P, Simon, Sindee L, McKenna, Gregory B

“…Vacuum pyrolysis deposition (VPD) has been used to create an ultrastable polymer glass having a fictive temperature T f of as much as 57 K below the nominal…”
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Effect of Alkyl Chain Branching on Physicochemical Properties of Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids by Xue, Lianjie, Gurung, Eshan, Tamas, George, Koh, Yung P, Shadeck, Michael, Simon, Sindee L, Maroncelli, Mark, Quitevis, Edward L

“…The branched ionic liquids (ILs) 1-(iso-alkyl)-3-methylimidazolium bis­[(trifluoromethane)­sulfonyl]­amide ([(N – 2)­mC N‑1C1im]­[NTf2] with N = 3–7) were…”
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Methyl methacrylate polymerization in nanoporous confinement by Zhao, Haoyu, Simon, Sindee L.

“…The effect of nanoconfinement on the rate of isothermal polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) polymerization is investigated using differential scanning…”
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