Differential scanning calorimetry basic principles

INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY. BASIC PRINCIPLES AND TYPES OF DSC EQUIPMENT... 

Spectroscopy has become a powerful tool for the determination of polymer structures. The major part of the book is devoted to techniques that are the most frequently used for analysis of rubbery materials, i.e., various methods of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and optical spectroscopy. One chapter is devoted to (multi) hyphenated thermograviometric analysis (TGA) techniques, i.e., TGA combined with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), mass spectroscopy, gas chromatography, differential scanning calorimetry and differential thermal analysis. There are already many excellent textbooks on the basic principles of these methods. Therefore, the main objective of the present book is to discuss a wide range of applications of the spectroscopic techniques for the analysis of rubbery materials. The contents of this book are of interest to chemists, physicists, material scientists and technologists who seek a better understanding of rubbery materials. 

This chapter describes the basic principle, recent developments, and selected applications of some commonly used experimental techniques (i.e., optical microscopy, electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, diffraction and scattering (X-ray, neutron, and light), and differential scanning calorimetry) for characterization of semicrystalline polymers. Many excellent reviews for each technique and their usage exist, and the listed references only represent the exem-... 

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