Decoupled molecular dynamics of glass-forming liquids confined in nano-meter pores

Calorimetry is the method first used by Jackson and McKenna to study the ef fect of finite-size on the molecular dynamics of glass-formers confined in nano-meter scale pores. It was found that the glass transition is shifted t o lower temperature as pore size decreases. Since then, other spectroscopic techniques have corroborated this finding and given more information on th e molecular dynamics. These results are used to compare with the prediction s of several theories of glass transition, and in particular the coupling m odel of the author.