Advanced thermal analysis, heat capacity data bank

Advanced Thermal Analysis System (ATHAS) Polymer Heat Capacity Data Bank... 

Varna-Nair M and Wunderlich B, "Heat Capacity and other Thermodynamic Properties of Linear Macromolecules", X-Update of the ATHAS (i.e. Advanced Thermal Analysis) Data Bank, a computerized version of the data bank of heat capacities. 

To address our efforts towards correlating the macroscopic-ally measured heat capacity data to their microscopic origin, the data base started in the 1960 s was updated and computerized about five years ago (.8). The data bank is now incorporated within ATHAS, Advanced Thermal Analysis, a laboratory for research and instruction. The data bank maintains a collection of more than 500 publications on heat capacities of polymers which includes all measurements ever reported. The publication list is updated every six months. From each publication the following information is retrieved ... 

An Advanced THermal Analysis scheme, the ATHAS scheme has been developed over the years and is described in Sect. 2.3.7. It was created to improve the quantitative aspects of thermal analysis and includes methods of data collection and evaluation (computation). Furthermore, it provides computer courses for distance learning, and a data bank of critically evaluated heat capacities of linear polymers and related compounds, both in downloadable information from the ATHAS website. An abbreviated data bank, of use in connection with the discussions in this book, is collected in Appendix 1. 

The description of the theory of heat capacity and the application of heat capacity measurements have been given by Wunderlich and other researchers [2,3-17]. The most comprehensive and updated heat capacity data are collected in the ATHAS data bank (Advanced THermal Analysis) which has been developed over the last 25 years by Wunderlich (Chemistry Department, The University of Tetmessee), and coworkers. 

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