Setting behaviour of inorganic cements

DSC has also been used to investigate the kinetics of fast setting inorganic based calcium phosphate cements (CPC). Conventionally, the setting times of CPC have been determined 

6 Examples of applications using differential thermal analysis/thermogravimetric analysis (DTA/TGA) in the development and characterisation of biomaterials 

DTA equipment has been used in the characterisation of glasses and ceramics (see Chapter 10) as it has the ability to measure higher temperature parameters compared to DSC equipment, though modern high-temperature analysers are now capable of offering a heat flow signal. As for DSC analysis, a typical heating run can measure the Tg, T and of 

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