Engineered materials are becoming more complex in attempts to heat increasing needs, such as enhanced physical properties. With that, their characterization is becomes increasingly difficult. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is a thermal analysis technique which tells of various thermal properties of a material such as phase transition temperatures. Many...
Read More >>Determination of % Crystallinity in Polymers
*All of the information for this post was gathered from the sources listed below. Please use them for further reading on the subject. The physical properties of a polymeric sample, such as density, ductility, and yeild strength, are all highly dependent on the amount of crystalline material (often called...
Read More >>Heat Capacity by the Sapphire Method
The heat capacity of a material is a crucial property to consider when determining its functionality in certain applications. The typical SI unit of heat capacity (Cp) is Joules per gram Kelvin (). It is a measurement of how sensitive a material is to changes in temperature due to...
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