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Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Sep 18;51(72):13756-9. doi: 10.1039/c5cc03663a. Epub 2015 Jul 29.

Restricted diffusion of guest molecules in polymer thin films on solid substrates as revealed by three-dimensional single-molecule tracking.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Syoji Ito, Yuhei Taga, Kengo Hiratsuka, Satoshi Takei, Daichi Kitagawa, Seiya Kobatake, Hiroshi Miyasaka

Affiliations

  1. Division of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Promotion of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan. [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 26221633 DOI: 10.1039/c5cc03663a

Abstract

3D single-molecule tracking revealed that the translational diffusion of guest dyes in poly(2-hydroxyethyl acrylate) thin films on glass substrates was confined in a horizontal layer at a distance longer than 300-700 nm from the surface of the substrate. This peculiar long-range effect suggests that the interaction between the host polymer and the interface could affect the properties of polymers at a much longer distance than conventionally estimated.

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