Thermal Analysis of Polymers: Fundamentals and Applications

Learn how to take full advantage of a broad range of thermal analysis techniques
Thermal Analysis of Polymers: Fundamentals and Applications emphasizes the practical uses of thermal analysis, enabling readers to take full advantage of its capabilities as a polymer characterization tool in their laboratories. The book offers essential theoretical background; however, it focuses on how to perform a broad range of thermal analysis measurements and tests, with detailed coverage of methods, applications, instrumentation, and calibration. Moreover, it helps readers correctly interpret their results.
This book features a team of authors whose expertise spans all the thermal analysis techniques and applications covered in the book. Their advice is based not only on thorough knowledge of the literature, but also their own hands–on experience working in the lab. Among the topics covered are:
Differential scanning calorimetry
Thermogravimetric analysis
Thermomechanical analysis and thermodilatometry
Dynamic mechanical analysis
Dielectric analysis
Micro– and nano–scale local thermal analysis
Each chapter guides readers through the applications of thermal analysis for polymer char–acterization, with detailed examples that show how to perform each step. References guide readers to the primary literature for further investigation into each topic.
Following this book′s step–by–step guidance, chemists and engineers new to thermal analysis techniques, whether in industry, government, or academia, can quickly learn to use them to generate high–quality results. For more experienced researchers, the book enables them to expand their repertoire to include a broader range of sophisticated techniques and applications.

Spis treści:
Chapter I: Introduction (Joseph D. Menczel, R. Bruce Prime and Patrick K. Gallagher).
Chapte r II: Differential Scanning Calorimetry (Joseph D. Menczel, Lawrence H. Judovits, R. Bruce Prime, Harvey E. Bair, Mike Reading, and Steven Swier).
1. Introduction.
2. Elements of Thermodynamics in DSC.
3. The Basics of Differential Scanning Calorimetry.
4. Purity Determination of Low Molecular Mass Compounds by DSC.
5. Calibration of Differential Scanning Calorimeters.
6. The Measurement of Heat Capacity.
7. Phase Transitions in Amorphous and Crystalline Polymers.
8. DSC of Fibers.
9. Films.
10. Thermosets.
11. Differential Photocalorimetry (DPC).
12. Fast Scan DSC.
13. Modulated Temperature Differential Scanning Calorimetry (MTDSC).
14. How to Perform DSC Measurements .
15. Instrumentation.
References.
Chapter III: Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) (R. Bruce Prime, Harvey E. Bair, Sergey Vyazovkin, Patrick K. Gallagher, and Alan Riga).
1. Introduction.
2. Background Principles and Measurement Modes.
3. Calibration and Reference Materials.
4. Measurements and Analyses.
5. Kinetics.
6. Selected Applications.
7. Instrumentation.
Appendix.
References.
Chapter IV: Thermomechanical Analysis (TMA) and Thermodilitometry (TD) (Harvey E. Bair, Ali E. Akinay, Joseph D. Menczel, R. Bruce Prime, and Michael Jaffe).
1. Introduction.
2. Principles and Theory.
3. Instrumental.
4. Calibration.
5. How to Perform a TMA Experiment.
6. Key Applications.
7. Selected Industrial Applications.
Appendix.
References.
Chapter V: Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) (Richard P. Chartoff, Joseph D. Menczel, and Steven H. Dillman).
1. Introduction.
2. Characterization of viscoelastic behavior.
3. Applications of dynamic mechanical analysis.
4. Examples of DMA characterization for thermoplastics.
5. Characteristics of fibers and thin films.
6. DMA characterization of cross–linked polymers.
7. Practical Aspects of Conducting DMA Experiments.
8. Commercial DMA In strumentation.
Appendix.
References.
Chapter VI: Dielectric Analysis (DEA) (Aglaia Vassilikou–Dova and Ioannis M. Kalogeras).
1. Introduction.
2. Theory and background of dielectric analysis.
3. Dielectric techniques.
4. Performing dielectric experiments.
5. Typical measurements on poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA).
6. Dielectric Analysis of Thermoplastics.
7. Dielectric Analysis of Thermosets.
8. Instrumentation.
Appendix.
References.
Chapter VII: Micro and Nano Scale Local Thermal Analysis (Valeriy V. Gorbunov, David Grandy, Mike Reading, and Vladimir V. Tsukruk).
1. Introduction.
2. The Atomic Force Microscope.
3. Scanning Thermal Microscopy.
4. Thermal Probe Design and Spatial Resolution.
5. Measuring Thermal Conductivity and Thermal Force–Distance Curves.
6. Local Thermal Analysis.
7. Performing a Micro/Nano Thermal Analysis Experiment.
8. Examples of Micro/Nano Thermal Analysis Applications.
9. Overview of Local Thermal Analysis.
References.

Nota biograficzna:

Joseph D. Menczel, PhD, a recognized expert in thermal analysis of polymers with some thirty years of industrial and academic experience, is Assistant Technical Director at Alcon Laboratories. He has researched more than 120 polymeric systems in which he studied calibration of DSCs, glass transition, nucleation, crystallization, melting, stability, mechanical and micro–mechanical properties of polymers, and polymer–water interactions. Dr. Menczel holds six patents and is the author of seventy scholarly papers. He is the author of two chapters in the bookThermal Characterization of Polymeric Materials. In conducting DSC experiments, Dr. Menczel found a crystal/amorphous interface in semicrystalline polymers, which later became known as the rigid amorphous phase. He is also credited with developing the temperature calibration of DSCs for cooling experiments.
R. Bruce Prime, PhD, is a cons ultant to industry and government and a recognized authority on the cure and properties of cross–linked polymer systems. During his thirty–year career with IBM, he led teams responsible for developing and implementing polymer applications for printer and information storage technologies. He holds four patents and is the author of more than fifty technical papers and the chapter on thermosets in Thermal Characterization of Polymeric Materials. Dr. Prime is a Fellow of SPE and NATAS and was the 1989 recipient of the Mettler–Toledo Award in Thermal Analysis. He maintains the Web site www.primethermosets.com.

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Learn how to take full advantage of a broad range of thermal analysis techniques
Thermal Analysis of Polymers: Fundamentals and Applications emphasizes the practical uses of thermal analysis, enabling readers to take full advantage of its capabilities as a polymer characterization tool in their laboratories. The book offers essential theoretical background; however, it focuses on how to perform a broad range of thermal analysis measurements and tests, with detailed coverage of methods, applications, instrumentation, and calibration. Moreover, it helps readers correctly interpret their results.
This book features a team of authors whose expertise spans all the thermal analysis techniques and applications covered in the book. Their advice is based not only on thorough knowledge of the literature, but also their own hands–on experience working in the lab. Among the topics covered are:
Differential scanning calorimetry
Thermogravimetric analysis
Thermomechanical analysis and thermodilatometry
Dynamic mechanical analysis
Dielectric analysis
Micro– and nano–scale local thermal analysis
Each chapter guides readers through the applications of thermal analysis for polymer char–acterization, with detaile