Thermal probes design

Pyroprobe 1000. This provides complete choice of thermal processing parameters. Pulse pyrolysis is permitted at rates up to 20 °C per second to temperatures as high as 1400 °C. In addition to accuracy and reproducibility, the temperature versatility allows for uninterrupted sequential runs on the same sample under different thermal conditions without removing the sample probe. Two probe designs are available coil element for solid polymers and ribbon element for polymer film and solvent deposits on polymers. 

A. Balkrishnan, W. Nicolet, S. Sandhu, and J. Dodson, Galileo Probe Thermal Protection Entry Heating Environments and Spallation Experiment Design,... 

The ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes are also popular but the brightnesses do not exceed 15,000 and thermal quenching is rather significant. This property can be utilized to design temperature-sensitive probes providing that the dyes are effectively shielded from oxygen (e.g., in polyacrylonitrile beads). Despite often very high emission quantum yields the visible absorption of cyclometallated complexes of iridium(III) and platinum(II) is usually poor (e < 10,000 M-1cm-1), thus,... 

The present study reports the synthesis, characterization and thermal reactions of phenyl and carbomethoxy substituted norbornenyl imides. These substrates were designed to model the reactive end-caps of the PMR-15 resin and allow an assessment of the effect that conjugating substituents would have on the high temperature cure of such systems. The effect of these substituents on both monomer isomerization and polymerization is reported and a possible use of the phenyl substituent as a probe of polymer structure is suggested. 

The need of designing probes for measuring in vivo temperature is primarily dictated by therapeutical purposes. In fact, useful therapies against tumors like hypertermia or thermal ablation are based on localized heating which selectively kills tumor cells. Such therapies require the achievement of well-defined temperatures that, moreover, have to be maintained constant for a given time. Therefore, a continuous temperature monitoring is essential for the success of the therapy 136). 

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