Recent progress in thermal analysis of polymers: experimental techniques and a new aspect of temperature in measurement of material properties

Abstract

Thermal analysis has been utilized in polymer research for a long time and its usefulness is widely recognized. High-performance commercial instruments have driven significant progress in the thermal studies of polymers. On the other hand, new experimental instruments have been developed in laboratories as well. In this paper attention is paid to the latter category. The laboratory-made instrument focused on the target material and/or phenomena provides data that are not available from other techniques. Experiments using the temperature modulation technique, which has been successfully utilized in laboratory-made instruments, are introduced in this paper. The temperature modulation technique reveals a new aspect of temperature useful for studies of material properties.

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