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  1. Identifying the Thermal Barriers of Glass Aging via Isoconversional Analysis

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, January 2026, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  2. Multistep Relaxation Pathway from Glass to Crystal Development in Poly( l -lactide)

    Article • Macromolecules, December 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  3. The glass transition and the dynamics of water within pectin and metal–organic framework nanochannels

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Dr. Silvina Cerveny, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  4. Linking the pressure dependence of the structure and thermal stability to α- and β-relaxations in metallic glasses

    Article • Science Advances, October 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  5. Water Permeates and Plasticizes Amorphous Carbon Dots: Unraveling the Inner Accessibility of the Nanoparticles by Glass Transition Studies

    Article • Advanced Materials, September 2025, Wiley

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  6. Vitrimeric Behavior Revealed by Fast Scanning Calorimetry in Branched Polyglycerol Networks Cross-Linked by Reversible Enamine Bonds

    Article • Macromolecules, September 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  7. The glass transition of confined water.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Silvina Cerveny, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  8. Twofold Facet of Kinetics of Glass Aging

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  9. Time in a glass

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  10. Physical aging and vitrification in polymers and other glasses: Complex behavior and size effects

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science, February 2024, Wiley

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  11. Length Scale of Molecular Motions Governing Glass Equilibration in Hyperquenched and Slow-Cooled Polystyrene

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, January 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  12. Metastability and polymorphism in dihydroxybenzenes – implications for thermal energy storage

    Article • Energy Advances, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  13. Physical aging in molecular glasses beyond the α relaxation

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, August 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  14. Size-dependent vitrification in metallic glasses

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  15. Size dependent vitrification in metallic glasses

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  16. Fast scanning calorimetry on volatile carbon-based materials

    Article • Thermochimica Acta, January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  17. Comment on “Anomalous structural recovery in the near glass transition range in a polymer glass: Data revisited in light of temperature variability in vacuum oven‐based experiments”

    Article • Polymer Engineering & Science, July 2022, Wiley

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  18. Decoupling of Glassy Dynamics from Viscosity in Thin Supported Poly(n-butyl methacrylate) Films

    Article • ACS Polymers Au, June 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  19. Bio-based semi-crystalline PEF: Temperature dependence of the constrained amorphous interphase and amorphous chain mobility in relation to crystallization

    Article • Polymer, April 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  20. High throughput optimization procedure to characterize vitrification kinetics

    Article • Thermochimica Acta, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  21. Physical aging of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose acetate succinate via enthalpy recovery

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  22. Direct Visualization and Characterization of Interfacially Adsorbed Polymer atop Nanoparticles and within Nanocomposites

    Article • Macromolecules, October 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  23. Glass transition and aging of the rigid amorphous fraction in polymorphic poly(butene-1)

    Article • Polymer, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  24. Polymorphism in Non‐Fullerene Acceptors Based on Indacenodithienothiophene

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  25. Physical Aging Behavior of a Glassy Polyether

    Article • Polymers, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  26. Reaching the Ideal Glass in Polymer Spheres: Thermodynamics and Vibrational Density of States

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  27. Enhanced Free Surface Mobility Facilitates the Release of Free-Volume Holes in Thin-Film Polymer Glasses

    Article • Macromolecules, February 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  28. Gold nanoparticles endowed with low-temperature colloidal stability by cyclic polyethylene glycol in ethanol

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  29. Vitrification and Physical Aging in Polymer Glasses by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy

    Article • January 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  30. The Importance of Quantifying the Composition of the Amorphous Intermixed Phase in Organic Solar Cells

    Article • Advanced Materials, October 2020, Wiley

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  31. Physical Aging and Glass Transition of the Rigid Amorphous Fraction in Poly(l-lactic acid)

    Article • Macromolecules, September 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  32. Direct observation of desorption of a melt of long polymer chains

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  33. Vitrification decoupling from α-relaxation in a metallic glass

    Article • Science Advances, April 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  34. Single-chain nanoparticles: opportunities provided by internal and external confinement

    Article • Materials Horizons, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  35. Glassy Dynamics of an All-Polymer Nanocomposite Based on Polystyrene Single-Chain Nanoparticles

    Article • Macromolecules, August 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  36. Processing Pathways Decide Polymer Properties at the Molecular Level

    Article • Macromolecules, August 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  37. Tunable Properties of MAPLE-Deposited Thin Films in the Presence of Suppressed Segmental Dynamics

    Article • ACS Macro Letters, August 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  38. Shell Architecture Strongly Influences the Glass Transition, Surface Mobility, and Elasticity of Polymer Core-Shell Nanoparticles

    Article • Macromolecules, July 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  39. Effect of molecular weight on vitrification kinetics and molecular mobility of a polymer glass confined at the microscale

    Article • Thermochimica Acta, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  40. Synthesis of macrocyclic poly(ethylene oxide)s containing a protected thiol group: a strategy for decorating gold surfaces with ring polymers

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  41. Physical Aging of Polymers

    Article • November 2018, Wiley

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  42. Thermodynamic Ultrastability of a Polymer Glass Confined at the Micrometer Length Scale

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  43. Double Mechanism for Structural Recovery of Polystyrene Nanospheres

    Article • Macromolecules, April 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  44. Direct Calorimetric Observation of the Rigid Amorphous Fraction in a Semiconducting Polymer

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, February 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  45. Hierarchical aging pathways and reversible fragile-to-strong transition upon annealing of a metallic glass former

    Article • Acta Materialia, February 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  46. The very long-term physical aging of glassy polymers

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  47. Glass Transition and Physical Aging of Confined Polymers Investigated by Calorimetric Techniques

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  48. Glass Transition and Molecular Dynamics in Polystyrene Nanospheres by Fast Scanning Calorimetry

    Article • ACS Macro Letters, July 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  49. Complex nonequilibrium dynamics of stacked polystyrene films deep in the glassy state

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  50. Irreversible Adsorption Erases the Free Surface Effect on the Tg of Supported Films of Poly(4-tert-butylstyrene)

    Article • ACS Macro Letters, March 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  51. Reaching the ideal glass transition by aging polymer films

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  52. Direct Measurement of Glass Transition Temperature in Exposed and Buried Adsorbed Polymer Nanolayers

    Article • Macromolecules, June 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  53. Effect of nanostructure on the thermal glass transition and physical aging in polymer materials

    Article • Progress in Polymer Science, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  54. On the equivalence between the thermodynamic and dynamic measurements of the glass transition in confined polymers

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  55. Effect of Confinement Geometry on Out-of-Equilibrium Glassy Dynamics

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  56. Dynamics and thermodynamics of polymer glasses

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, March 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  57. Accounting for the thickness dependence of the Tg in supported PS films via the volume holes diffusion model

    Article • Thermochimica Acta, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  58. Interfacial Free Volume and Vitrification: Reduction in Tg in Proximity of an Adsorbing Interface Explained by the Free Volume Holes Diffusion Model

    Article • Macromolecules, September 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  59. Direct Evidence of Two Equilibration Mechanisms in Glassy Polymers

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  60. Glass transition and segmental dynamics in thin supported polystyrene films: The role of molecular weight and annealing

    Article • Thermochimica Acta, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  61. Gelation Rheology and Water Absorption Behavior of Semi-Interpenetrating Polymer Networks of Polyacrylamide and Carboxymethyl Cellulose

    Article • Journal of Macromolecular Science Part B, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  62. Volume recovery of polystyrene/silica nanocomposites

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, March 2013, Wiley

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  63. Physical aging in polymers and polymer nanocomposites: recent results and open questions

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  64. Mobility and glass transition temperature of polymer nanospheres

    Article • Polymer, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  65. Correlation Between Segmental Dynamics, Glass Transition, and Lithium Ion Conduction in Poly(Methyl Methacrylate)/Ionic Liquid Mixture

    Article • Journal of Macromolecular Science Part B, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  66. Time dependence of the segmental relaxation time of poly(vinyl acetate)-silica nanocomposites

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  67. Enthalpy Recovery in Nanometer to Micrometer Thick Polystyrene Films

    Article • Macromolecules, June 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  68. Positron annihilation and relaxation dynamics from dielectric spectroscopy: poly(vinylmethylether)

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, March 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  69. Enhanced physical aging of polymer nanocomposites: The key role of the area to volume ratio

    Article • Polymer, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  70. Tg depression and invariant segmental dynamics in polystyrene thin films

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  71. Enthalpy Recovery of Glassy Polymers: Dramatic Deviations from the Extrapolated Liquidlike Behavior

    Article • Macromolecules, October 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  72. Free volume holes diffusion to describe physical aging in poly(mehtyl methacrylate)/silica nanocomposites

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, July 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  73. Physical aging of polystyrene/gold nanocomposites and its relation to the calorimetric Tg depression

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Luis Liz-Marzán, Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  74. Physical aging in PMMA/silica nanocomposites: Enthalpy and dielectric relaxation

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, January 2011, Elsevier

    Luis Liz-Marzán, Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  75. Enthalpy Recovery of PMMA/Silica Nanocomposites

    Article • Macromolecules, September 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  76. Universal relation between viscous flow and fast dynamics in glass-forming materials

    Article • Physical Review B, March 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  77. Accelerated physical aging in PMMA/silica nanocomposites

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Luis Liz-Marzán, Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  78. Effect of silica particles concentration on the physical aging of PMMA∕silica nanocomposites

    Article • January 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  79. Dynamical heterogeneity in binary mixtures of low-molecular-weight glass formers

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  80. On the temperature dependence of the nonexponentiality in glass-forming liquids

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  81. Comment on “Vibrational and configurational parts of the specific heat at glass formation”

    Article • Physical Review B, November 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  82. Dielectric relaxation of polychlorinated biphenyl/toluene mixtures: Component dynamics

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, June 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  83. Miscible Polymer Blends with Large Dynamical Asymmetry:  A New Class of Solid-State Electrolytes?

    Article • Macromolecules, February 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  84. Route to calculate the length scale for the glass transition in polymers

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  85. “Self-concentration” effects on the dynamics of a polychlorinated biphenyl diluted in 1,4-polybutadiene

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  86. Predicting the Time Scale of the Component Dynamics of Miscible Polymer Blends:  The Polyisoprene/Poly(vinylethylene) Case

    Article • Macromolecules, October 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  87. Describing the component dynamics in miscible polymer blends: Towards a fully predictive model

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, April 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  88. A thermodynamic approach to the fragility of glass-forming polymers

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, January 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  89. Modeling the Dynamics of Head-to-Head Polypropylene in Blends with Polyisobutylene

    Article • Macromolecules, January 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  90. A Wavelength-Shifting Fluorescent Probe for Investigating Physical Aging

    Article • Macromolecules, January 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  91. Combining configurational entropy and self-concentration to describe the component dynamics in miscible polymer blends

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, October 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  92. Diffusion mechanism for physical aging of polycarbonate far below the glass transition temperature studied by means of dielectric spectroscopy

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, September 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  93. Relationship between dynamics and thermodynamics in glass-forming polymers

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), June 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  94. Relaxation of Free Volume in Polycarbonate and Polystyrene Studied by Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy

    Article • Acta Physica Polonica A, April 2005, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  95. Amorphous-amorphous transition in glassy polymers subjected to cold rolling studied by means of positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, February 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  96. Physical aging of polycarbonate far below the glass transition temperature: Evidence for the diffusion mechanism

    Article • Physical Review B, December 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  97. Hybrid organic inorganic nylon-6/SiO2nanocomposites: Transport properties

    Article • Polymer Engineering & Science, July 2004, Wiley

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  98. Dynamics of polycarbonate far below the glass transition temperature: A positron annihilation lifetime study

    Article • Physical Review B, April 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  99. Submicron structured polymethyl methacrylate/acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber blends obtained via gamma radiation induced ?in situ? polymerization

    Article • Advances in Polymer Technology, January 2004, Wiley

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  100. Accumulation of charges in polycarbonate due to positron irradiation

    Article • Radiation Physics and Chemistry, October 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  101. Mobility and solubility of antioxidants and oxygen in glassy polymers. III. Influence of deformation and orientation on oxygen permeability

    Article • Polymer, April 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  102. Mobility and solubility of antioxidants and oxygen in glassy polymers II. Influence of physical ageing on antioxidant and oxygen mobility

    Article • Polymer Degradation and Stability, March 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  103. Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy for Measuring Free Volume during Physical Aging of Polycarbonate

    Article • Macromolecules, January 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  104. Electron beam induced polymerisation of MMA in the presence of rubber: a novel process to produce tough materials

    Article • Radiation Physics and Chemistry, January 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  105. Properties and morphology of PMMA/ABN blends obtained via MMA in situ polymerisation through γ-rays

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, December 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi

  106. Study of methyl methacrylate polymerization in the presence of rubbers

    Article • European Polymer Journal, March 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Daniele Cangialosi, Dr Daniele Cangialosi