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  1. Activation free energy gradient controls interfacial mobility gradient in thin polymer films

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, November 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Wengang Zhang, Francis Starr

  2. Reconciling computational and experimental trends in the temperature dependence of the interfacial mobility of polymer films

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, March 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Wengang Zhang

  3. What does the instantaneous normal mode spectrum tell us about dynamical heterogeneity in glass-forming fluids?

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, November 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Wengang Zhang, Francis Starr

  4. The interfacial zone in thin polymer films and around nanoparticles in polymer nanocomposites

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Francis Starr, Wengang Zhang

  5. Collective Motion in the Interfacial and Interior Regions of Supported Polymer Films and Its Relation to Relaxation

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Wengang Zhang

  6. Why we need to look beyond the glass transition temperature to characterize the dynamics of thin supported polymer films

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Wengang Zhang

  7. What does the Tg of thin polymer films really tell us?

    Article • January 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Wengang Zhang

  8. Effects of a “bound” substrate layer on the dynamics of supported polymer films

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

    Wengang Zhang

  9. Dynamical heterogeneity in a vapor-deposited polymer glass

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

    Wengang Zhang