Thermal Analysis of Polymeric Materials

✍ Scribed by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wunderlich (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 906
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Thermal Analysis of Polymeric Materials" systematically treats macroscopic measurements by thermal analysis and the quantitative link to microscopic, molecular structure and mobility. Reversible and irreversible thermodynamics, kinetics, quantum mechanics, and statistical thermodynamics are the roots of the described thermal analysis. The book aims to broaden readers’ understanding of materials and the connection of flexible macromolecules (polymers) to small molecules and rigid macromolecules (minerals, salts, and metals). An effort is made to discover how the long, flexible molecules fit into their small phases which are characterized as microphases or nanophases. Their order ranges from amorphous to mesophase-like and crystalline. Ultimately, it is shown that the basic structure-property-processing triangle is connected to the better-known types of molecules and their common macroscopic phases.

✦ Table of Contents

Atoms, Small, and Large Molecules....Pages 1-70
Basics of Thermal Analysis....Pages 71-188
Dynamics of Chemical and Phase Changes....Pages 189-278
Thermal Analysis Tools....Pages 279-454
Structure and Properties of Materials....Pages 455-590
Single Component Materials....Pages 591-704
Multiple Component Materials....Pages 705-776

✦ Subjects

Polymer Sciences; Condensed Matter; Analytical Chemistry; Physical Chemistry