Crosslinking process and properties of unconventional blends of chloroprene rubber and partially hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber

Atomic force microscopy with fractal studies of temperature induced changes in the surface topography of polymeric materials

“…In a power-compensated DSC, the sample and reference are heated by separate heaters, and it is the difference in thermal power required to maintain them at the same temperature that is actually measured. What is also important, temperature T of specimens is increased linearly as a function of time t with an arbitrary heating rate [28]: (10) DSC is frequently used in multiple applications for example: phase analysis, calorimetric studies of phase transitions and chemical reactions, measurements of specific heat of materials, determination of chemical composition and chemical purity of materials, determination of kinetic parameters of various reactions, etc. The advantage of this method among others is that a small sample mass will suffice, and that the heating rate can be adjusted in a wide range from a fraction up to several hundreds of deg per minute.…”

“…It is used to study the structure of a wide variety of materials, it is widely used in metallurgy and ceramics, it is tested by a variety of biological tissues (including cancer) in medicine and even a variety of biological material in forensic examinations [6][7][8][9]. The AFM technique is also used to examine polymers, but mainly for simple surface analysis and properties or chemical reactions [10,11]. In this material, the authors will analyze the results of polymer surface analysis using fractal analysis.…”