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New Routes for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry As Applied to Polymeric Systems

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Over the last few decades there has been a strong decrease in the number of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (TA and C) ‘practitioners’ - scientists who know the in sand outs of TA and C and its (im)possibilities and are capable of initiating new developments. By contrast, an increasing number of TA and C ‘users’ are scarcely able to acquire in-depth knowledge of TA and C. It is therefore of great importance that national TA and C societies create the infrastructure for dedicated education. In addition, the feasibility of setting up one or more expertise centers per country, where ‘practitioners’ can do research,carry out contract research and give advice to users, needs to be investigated.

Equally important, the TA and C community needs to address a number of challenges in the coming decade with the aim of controlling the ‘knowledge cycle’ in the field of polymers: to translate non-optimal properties into improved processing conditions or even a more suitable macromolecular architecture, in order to reduce the lead times for the development and optimization of materials.

Although Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry can generally be considered to be ‘mature’, in specific subareas a large number of new developments take place. A few examples of these developments and of state-of-the-art TA and C are given:quantitative heat capacity measurements by means of DSC; (very) high pressure DSC;real-time morphological analysis and temperature-modulated X-ray analysis. In addition, anew form of TA and C is discussed: High Performance DSC (HPer DSC), which is also a high rate DSC and a high throughput DSC.

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Mathot, V.B.F. New Routes for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry As Applied to Polymeric Systems. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 64, 15–35 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011520625934

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