By Stephen Z.D. Cheng (Eds.)
As a brand new and fascinating box of interdisciplinary macromolecular technological know-how and engineering, polymeric fabrics could have a profound presence in twenty first century chemical, pharmaceutical, biomedical, production, infrastructure, digital, optical and knowledge applied sciences. The foundation of this box derived from a space of polymer technological know-how and engineering encompassing plastic applied sciences. the sphere is quickly increasing to include new interdisciplinary examine parts corresponding to biomaterials, macromolecular biology, novel macromolecular constructions, environmental macromolecular technology and engineering, leading edge and nano-fabrications of goods, and is translating discoveries into applied sciences.
· certain in combining clinical innovations with technological aspects
· presents a finished and wide insurance of thermodynamic and thermal behaviours of assorted polymeric fabrics in addition to methodologies of thermal research and calorimetry
· Contributions are from either pioneering scientists and the recent iteration of researchers
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Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Technology University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-3121, USA Starkweather, Howard W. Jr. I. O. Box 80356, Wilmington, DE 198800356, USA Wu, Zongquan Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3909, USA Wunderlich, Bernhard Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoville, TN 37996-1600, USA Zhu, Lei Institute of Materials Science and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3222, USA Zhang, Anqiu Maurice Morton Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325-3909, USA This Page Intentionally Left Blank Handbook of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry.
This empirical observation was used to derive an addition scheme for the heat capacities of polymers [ 16]. After the crystallinity dependence has been established, the heat capacity of the solid at constant pressure, Cp, must be changed to the heat capacity at constant volume C~, as indicated by Eqs. (9) or (10) and indicated in the first step of Fig. 11. For most polymers, use is made of the Lindemann approximation since compressO* t~ ca 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Frequency v Rroup vibrations 8x1013 "skeletal" " vibrations Fig.
Again, a single equation represents all data. 900 o E Q.. 0226T) I ] 400 soo Temperature (K) 6oo Fig. 21. Heat capacitiesof liquid nylons. 7. EXAMPLES OF THE APPLICATION OF ATHAS The application of the ATHAS has produced a large volume of critically reviewed and interpreted heat capacity data on solid and liquid homopolymers. This knowledge is helpful in the determination of the integral thermodynamic functions which are also part of the data bank [1]. Even of greater importance is the help these basic data give in the separation ofnonequilibrium enthalpy and heat capacity effects, as will be illustrated in a number of examples.