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Handbook of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry: Applications to Polymers and Plastics

Cheng, Stephen Z.D.

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Table of contents
  • Cover
  • CONTENTSix
  • Forewordv
  • Prefacevii
  • Contributorsxxvii
  • CHAPTER 1. HEAT CAPACITY OF POLYMERS1
  • 1. MEASUREMENT OF HEAT CAPACITY1
  • 2. THERMODYNAMIC THEORY5
  • 3. QUANTUM MECHANICAL DESCRIPTION5
  • 4. THE HEAT CAPACITY OF SOLIDS10
  • 5. COMPLEX HEAT CAPACITY14
  • 6. THE ADVANCED THERMAL ANALYSIS SYSTEM, ATHAS16
  • 7. EXAMPLES OF THE APPLICATION OF ATHAS28
  • 8. TEMERATURE-MODULATED CALORIMETRY34
  • 9. CONCLUDING REMARKS45
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS46
  • REFERENCES46
  • CHAPTER 2. THE GLASS TRANSITION: ITS MEASUREMENT AND UNDERLYING PHYSICS49
  • 1. INTRODUCTION49
  • 2. THE APPARENT THERMODYNAMIC BEHAVIOR50
  • 3. KINETICS OF GLASS FORMATION58
  • 4. MICROSCOPIC THEORIES RELATED TO THE GLASS TRANSITION76
  • 5. MEASUREMENT OF Tg81
  • 6. PHYSICAL AGING EFFECTS95
  • 7. CONCLUDING REMARKS104
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS104
  • REFERENCES104
  • CHAPTER 3. MECHANICAL RELAXATION PROCESSES IN POLYMERS111
  • 1. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY THE RELAXATION PROCESS111
  • 2. INTERMOLECULAR COOPERATIVITY119
  • 3. CHEMICAL STRUCTURE AND Tg124
  • 4. VISCOELASTICITY DATA ANALYSIS127
  • 5. BEYOND LINEAR VISCOELASTICITY143
  • REFERENCES145
  • CHAPTER 4. DIELECTRIC ANALYSIS OF POLYMERS147
  • 1. INTRODUCTION147
  • 2. POLAR AMORPHOUS POLYMERS150
  • 3. NONPOLAR POLYMERS157
  • 4. MISCIBILITY OF POLYMER BLENDS159
  • 5. COLD CRYSTALLIZATION OF AMORPHOUS POLYMERS ABOVE Tg161
  • 6. FREQUENCY-TEMPERATURE RELATIONSHIPS163
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS164
  • REFERENCES164
  • CHAPTER 5 . CRYSTALLIZATION AND MELTING OF METASTABLE CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS167
  • 1 . INTRODUCTION167
  • 2 . THERMODYNAMIC DEFINITIONS OF THE PHASE AND PHASE TRANSITIONS167
  • 3 . POLYMERCRYSTALLIZATION AND MORPHOLOGY175
  • 4. POLYMER CRYSTAL MELTING183
  • 5. CONCLUDING REMARKS191
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS192
  • REFERENCES192
  • CHAPTER 6. CRYSTALLIZATION, MELTING AND MORPHOLOGY OF HOMOGENEOUS ETHYLENE COPOLYMERS197
  • 1. INTRODUCTION197
  • 2. ETHYLENE-PROPYLENE COPOLYMERS200
  • 3. ETHYLENE- 1-BUTENE COPOLYMERS219
  • 4. ETHYLENE-1-OCTENE COPOLYMERS225
  • 5. OVERVIEW239
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS240
  • REFERENCES240
  • CHAPTER 7. RECENT ADVANCES IN THERMAL ANALYSIS OF THERMOTROPIC MAIN-CHAIN LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMER245
  • 1. INTRODUCTION245
  • 2. LIQUID CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALLINE POLYMERS247
  • 3. THERMODYNAMIC TRANSITION BEHAVIORS253
  • 4. ENANTIOTROPIC AND MONOTROPIC BEHAVIORS259
  • 5. EFFECTS OF MESOGENIC GROUPS AND SPACERS ON THE LIQUID CRYSTALLINE ORDERS AND STABILITY263
  • 6. CONCLUDING REMARKS268
  • REFERENCES268
  • CHAPTER 8 . POLYMER BLENDS AND COPOLYMERS273
  • 1. INTRODUCTION273
  • 2. BACKGROUND273
  • 3. POLYMERBLENDS274
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS291
  • REFERENCES292
  • CHAPTER 9. THERMOSETS295
  • 1. INTRODUCTION295
  • 2. GENERAL CONCEPTS296
  • 3. CHEMISTRY AND APPLICATIONS OF THERMOSETTING POLYMERS301
  • 4. DETERMINATION OF EXTENT OF CURE308
  • 5. GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE315
  • 6. REACTION KINETICS330
  • 7. PHOTO-INITIATED POLYMERIZATION338
  • 8. MODULATED TEMPERATURE DSC348
  • 9. CONCLUDING REMARKS350
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS351
  • REFERENCES351
  • CHAPTER 10. THERMAL ANALYSIS OF POLYMER FILMS355
  • 1. INTRODUCTION355
  • 2. GENERAL EXPERIMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THERMAL ANALYSIS OF POLYMER FILMS360
  • 3. THERMAL ANALYSIS OF SPECIFIC POLYMER FILMS369
  • 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS404
  • REFERENCES404
  • CHAPTER 11. THERMAL ANALYSIS OF POLYMER FIBERS409
  • 1. INTRODUCTION409
  • 2. FIBER STRUCTURE AND ITS DETERMINATION417
  • 3. THERMAL ANALYSIS OF FIBER426
  • 4. CONVENTIONAL FIBERS AND THEIR MODIFICATIONS439
  • 5. HIGH PERFORMANCE FIBERS463
  • 6. CONCLUDING REMARKS482
  • REFERENCES482
  • CHAPTER 12. THERMAL PROPERTIES OF HIGH TEMPERATURE POLYMER MATRIX FIBROUS COMPOSITES491
  • 1. INTRODUCTION491
  • 2. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION495
  • 3. CONCLUDING REMARKS516
  • REFERENCES517
  • CHAPTER 13. THERMAL ANALYSIS AND CALORIMETRY OF ELASTOMERS519
  • 1. INTRODUCTION519
  • 2. CLASSES OF ELASTOMER526
  • 3. SINGLE ELASTOMERS529
  • 4. BLENDS538
  • 5. ADDITIVES544
  • 6. CURING556
  • 7. STABILITY566
  • 8. QUALITY CONTROL576
  • 9. FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES578
  • REFERENCES580
  • CHAPTER 14. POLYMER DEGRADATION587
  • 1. INTRODUCTION587
  • 2. GENERAL PHYSICAL, STRUCTURAL AND THERMODYNAMIC CONSIDERATIONS589
  • 3. GENERAL THERMAL DEGRADATION MECHANISMS593
  • 4. GENERAL THERMO-OXIDATIVE MECHANISMS608
  • 5. GENERAL HYDROLYSIS MECHANISMS613
  • 6. LIFETIME PREDICTION OF POLYMERS BY THERMAL ANALYSIS614
  • 7. SOME SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF DEGRADATION616
  • 8. COPOLYMERS, BLENDS, MIXTURES631
  • 9. CONCLUDING REMARKS641
  • 10. BIBLIOGRAPHY641
  • 11. REFERENCES645
  • CHAPTER 15. THERMALLY STIMULATED CURRENTS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CHARACTERIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF P653
  • 1. INTRODUCTION653
  • 2. EXPERIMENTAL SECTION657
  • 3. ANALYSIS OF TSC-TS DATA660
  • 4. INTERPRETATION OF GLOBAL TSC RESULTS667
  • 5. INTERPRETATION OF TSC-THERMAL SAMPLING (TSC-TS) RESULTS674
  • 6. TSC APPLICATIONS697
  • 7. CONCLUDING REMARKS706
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS708
  • REFERENCES708
  • CHAPTER 16. TEMPERATURE MODULATED DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY (TMDSC) –BASICS AND APPLICATIO713
  • 1. INTRODUCTION713
  • 2. DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY (DSC) – BASIC CONSIDERATIONS717
  • 3. TEMPERATURE MODULATED DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY (TMDSC)722
  • 4. APPLICATIONS768
  • 5. CONCLUDING REMARKS801
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS802
  • REFERENCES802
  • INDEX811
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780444512864
  • ISBN-13 9780080527406
  • Author Cheng, Stephen Z.D.
  • Category Science
  • Subject Analytic

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As a new and exciting field of interdisciplinary macromolecular science and engineering, polymeric materials will have a profound presence in 21st century chemical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, manufacturing, infrastructure, electronic, optical and information technologies. The origin of this field derived from an area of polymer science and engineering encompassing plastic technologies. The field is rapidly expanding to incorporate new interdisciplinary research areas such as biomaterials, macromolecular biology, novel macromolecular structures, environmental macromolecular science and engineering, innovative and nano-fabrications of products, and is translating discoveries into technologies.

· Unique in combining scientific concepts with technological aspects
· Provides a comprehensive and broad coverage of thermodynamic and thermal behaviours of various polymeric materials as well as methodologies of thermal analysis and calorimetry
· Contributions are from both pioneering scientists and the new generation of researchers