Enhance Your Understanding of Polymer Materials with Thermal Analysis

This one-hour webinar discusses the crucial role of thermal analysis in understanding and optimizing polymeric materials.

Polymers, essential to daily life, owe their performance to factors such as molecular structure, crystallinity, filler content, and processing conditions. Several analytical techniques are employed by polymer chemists and process engineers to enhance the properties of the material. Thermal analysis is a cornerstone of this practice.

This webinar discusses the ways in which Hitachi thermal analysis instruments address the challenges faced during polymer processing and the development of new materials. These instruments include differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermal mechanical analysis (TMA), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA).

During this webinar, you will learn about:

• Employing DSC for raw material identification and quality control.
• Quantifying crystallinity and assessing polymer oxidative stability.
• Performing compositional analysis with TGA/STA.
• Detecting impurities in recycled polymer PCRs.
• Predicting the application lifetime of polymer materials.
• Evaluating the dimensional stability of electronic circuit boards.
• Studying thermoset curing and measuring viscoelastic behavior and glass transition of thermosetting materials using DSC and DMA.

Speaker

• Terri Chen, Director of Business Development at Cannon.