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The Handbook of Different Scanning Calorimetry: Volume 3
Differential Scanning Calorimetry of Polymers
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2029
- Authors: Joseph D Menczel, Janusz Grebowicz
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 1 3 4 4 - 8
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is the most important thermal analysis technique used today and the most common thermal analysis instrument found in chemical character… Read more
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Request a sales quoteDifferential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is the most important thermal analysis technique used today and the most common thermal analysis instrument found in chemical characterization laboratories. DSC has become an everyday tool in characterization laboratories, but many researchers using this technique have a limited understanding of the true breadth of its capabilities.
Up to now, there has been no book that would describe the application of DSC in all the various areas of materials chemistry. The Handbook of Differential Scanning Calorimetry has been written to fill that void. Consisting of three volumes, volume 3 is designed to explore the application of the DSC techniques within the field of polymers. This volume is designed to give the materials researchers and application chemists a preview of the full scope of capabilities for this technique within this field.
- Provides a discussion of the use of DSC in the field of polymer science
- Detailed review of application techniques related to polymers in order for users to fully leverage Differential Scanning Calorimetry
- Discusses how to properly interpret thermograms and analyse their results.
Materials researchers, thermal analysts, academics, post-doc graduate students
- No. of pages: 704
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 2029
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9780128113448
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Joseph D Menczel
Dr. Menczel is a recognized expert in thermal analysis of polymers with some thirty years of industrial and academic experience. He has researched more than 120 polymeric systems in which he studied calibration of DSCs, glass transition, nucleation, crystallization, melting, stability, mechanical and micromechanical properties of polymers, and polymer-water interactions. Dr. Menczel holds six patents and is the author of seventy scholarly papers. He is the author of two chapters in the book Thermal Characterization of Polymeric Materials. Dr. Menczel is an elected NATAS fellow and was the 2010 recipient of the Mettler-Toledo Award in Thermal Analysis.
Affiliations and expertise
Former president, North American Thermal Analysis SocietyJG
Janusz Grebowicz
Dr. Grebowicz is a Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Houston-Downtown and a 2014/15 Fulbright Scholar at AGH UST. His areas of expertise are thermal analysis, polymer physical chemistry, phase structure and phase transitions in materials, such as low molecular weight chemicals, polymers and geological materials. He has several significant contributions to science including: design of first ever schematic of all phases and mesophases (with his recognition of new mesophase: conformationally disordered crystals - Condis Crystals), recognition of Rigid Amorphous phase and first ever demonstration of capillary breakup of liquid threads in molten polymer systems - polymer blends (high viscosity). He has authored over 70 papers in these areas.
A native of Poland, he received his MS degree in physics from the University of Łódź. His MS project was on polymer physics: development of experimental methods of characterization morphology of semi-crystalline polymers. Soon after, he was appointed a researcher at the Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. There he received his PhD in research on polymer blends followed by a series of post-doctoral studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Max Planck Institute (Mainz, Germany), and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He became a world-class specialist in thermal analysis, as recognized by his colleagues in the field. For over a decade he worked for Shell Oil, Westhollow Technology Center in Houston, as the head of the Thermal Analysis laboratory (global reach).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Houston-Downtown and a 2014/15 Fulbright Scholar at AGH UST