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Fast Scanning Calorimetry

  • Introduces and describes the capabilities of Fast Scanning Calorimetry (FSC) measurement instrumentation
  • Details the options for mirroring of real-life processes including processing of polymers via extrusion and injection molding
  • Provides advanced characterization methods and techniques
  • Describes a range of applications for polymers and metals

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Advanced Instrumentation, Techniques and Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Non-Adiabatic Scanning Calorimeter for Controlled Fast Cooling and Heating

      • Evgeny Zhuravlev, Christoph Schick
      Pages 81-104
    3. Quasi-adiabatic, Membrane-Based, Highly Sensitive Fast Scanning Nanocalorimetry

      • J. Rodríguez-Viejo, A. F. Lopeandía
      Pages 105-149
    4. Fast Scanning Calorimetry–Fast Thermal Desorption Technique: The Thin Wire Approach

      • Deepanjan Bhattacharya, Ulyana Cubeta, Vladislav Sadtchenko
      Pages 151-186
    5. Fast Scanning Calorimetry of Silk Fibroin Protein: Sample Mass and Specific Heat Capacity Determination

      • Peggy Cebe, Benjamin P. Partlow, David L. Kaplan, Andreas Wurm, Evgeny Zhuravlev, Christoph Schick
      Pages 187-203
    6. Scanning AC Nanocalorimetry and Its Applications

      • Kechao Xiao, Joost J. Vlassak
      Pages 205-235
    7. Isoconversional Kinetics by Fast Scanning Calorimetry

      • Nicolas Sbirrazzuoli, Nathanael Guigo, Sergey Vyazovkin
      Pages 237-257
    8. Reliable Absolute Vapor Pressures of Extremely Low Volatile Compounds from Fast Scanning Calorimetry

      • Mathias Ahrenberg, Alexandr Ostonen, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer, Martin Beck, Christin Schmidt, Olaf Keßler et al.
      Pages 259-296
  3. Combination with Analytical Techniques and Molecular Simulations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-297
    2. Design of an In Situ Setup Combining Nanocalorimetry and Nano- or Micro-focus X-Ray Scattering to Address Fast Structure Formation Processes

      • M. Rosenthal, A. P. Melnikov, A. A. Rychkov, D. Doblas, D. V. Anokhin, M. Burghammer et al.
      Pages 299-326
    3. Combining Fast Scanning Chip Calorimetry with Structural and Morphological Characterization Techniques

      • Dorien Baeten, Dario Cavallo, Giuseppe Portale, René Androsch, Vincent Mathot, Bart Goderis
      Pages 327-359
    4. Combining Fast-Scan Chip Calorimetry with Molecular Simulations to Investigate Polymer Crystal Melting

      • Xiaoming Jiang, Zhaolei Li, Huanhuan Gao, Wenbing Hu
      Pages 379-399
  4. Dynamics of (de)Vitrification

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 401-401
    2. Cooling Rate Dependent Glass Transition in Thin Polymer Films and in Bulk

      • Daniele Cangialosi, Angel Alegría, Juan Colmenero
      Pages 403-431
    3. The Glass Transition and Structural Recovery Using Flash DSC

      • Sindee L. Simon, Yung P. Koh
      Pages 433-459
  5. Metastability and Reorganization in Relation to Crystallization and Melting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 461-461

About this book

In the past decades, the scan rate range of calorimeters has been extended tremendously at the high end, from approximately 10 up to 10 000 000 °C/s and more. The combination of various calorimeters and the newly-developed Fast Scanning Calorimeters (FSC) now span 11 orders of magnitude, by which many processes can be mimicked according to the time scale(s) of chemical and physical transitions occurring during cooling, heating and isothermal stays in case heat is exchanged. This not only opens new areas of research on polymers, metals, pharmaceuticals and all kinds of substances with respect to glass transition, crystallization and melting phenomena, it also enables in-depth study of metastability and reorganization of samples on an 1 to 1000 ng scale. In addition, FSC will become a crucial tool for understanding and optimization of processing methods at high speeds like injection molding. The book resembles the state-of-the art in Thermal Analysis & Calorimetry and is an excellent starting point for both experts and newcomers in the field.  

Reviews

“The editors expertly identify contributors and maintain a high level of consistency and subject matter for each chapter. … Most impressive is the wide variety of new experiments and applications that can be conducted with the instruments discussed within the work. This very professional, reader-friendly text demonstrates and explains the rapid development of a set of new thermal methods with exciting capabilities. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty; professionals.” (J. Allison, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Christoph Schick

  • SciTe B.V., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Geleen, The Netherlands

    Vincent Mathot

About the editors

Christoph Schick is Professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of Rostock and is Head of the Polymer Physics Group. His research focuses on advanced calorimetry, like temperature modulated or fast scanning, applied to polymers, metals, and other substances. He is interested in crystallization, nucleation, and glass transition in these materials. He authored or coauthored about 300 publications and received the Mettler Toledo Award of NATAS, The James J. Christensen Memorial Award of the Calorimetry Conference and the Wissenschaftspreis of GEFTA.

Vincent Mathot performed research at DSM Research, SciTe BV (both in the Netherlands) and as guest professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) on molecular structure; crystallization and melting; morphology; thermal properties; relationships between these topics with regard to polymeric systems; as well as development of methods and advanced instrumentation. Throughout his aim was to link quantitative, fundamental research to applications, and to make the results found available to the scientific community by publications and lectures. He edited a book and a special issue on thermal properties of polymers, and is recipient of the Mettler-Toledo Award of NATAS and the TA Instruments ICTAC Award for his thermal analysis activities.

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Softcover Book USD 379.99
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