用调制式差示扫描量热法表征尼龙6和聚乳酸升温热行为

用调制式差示扫描量热法(MDSC)表征尼龙6和聚乳酸升温过程热行为，MDSC把总热流分解成可逆热流ΔHrev和不可逆热流ΔHnon;实验结果表明纯尼龙及其共混体系升温熔融过程中包含了可逆放热峰；共混体系不同，可逆热流ΔHrev不同，都比纯尼龙小；纯尼龙可逆热流ΔHrev随调制周期延长而增大；聚乳酸玻璃化转变区，随老化时间的延长和老化温度的提高，玻璃化转变温度Tg提高，松弛热焓增大。     

调制差示扫描量热法在高分子材料中的应用

调制差示扫描量热法(MDSC)是在传统线性变温基础上叠加一个正弦震荡温度程序,将总热流量分解为可逆热流(热容成分)和不可逆热流(动力学成分),同时具有较高的灵敏度和分辨率,在研究高分子材料复杂相变时具有独特的优势。近年来,MDSC在研究高分子材料的玻璃化转变、结晶-熔融、热容变化等领域得到了较为广泛的应用。本文对MDSC近年来在高分子材料中的最新研究应用做了详细介绍。     

聚乳酸-聚乙二醇单甲醚共混体系的调制DSC分析

采用调制差示扫描量热法(MDSC)研究了聚乳酸(PLA)与聚乙二醇单甲醚(MPEG)共混体系的热性能。研究结果表明,MDSC可有效分辨PLA重结晶和熔融的重叠效应,在测试条件下,PLA的α’-α晶型转变与α晶体的熔融几乎同时进行。随着升温速率的加快和调制周期的延长,当增塑剂的质量分数为15%时,PLA-MPEG共混物分割在不可逆曲线的重结晶焓逐渐升高(最高约28J/g),熔融焓逐渐降低(最低约为3.3J/g);分割在可逆曲线的熔融峰逐渐由多重峰变为单峰,且焓变值逐渐升高(最高约66.1J/g),相应的可逆曲线熔融分割比例达到了95.2%。通过提高升温速率和延长调制周期,可使大部分熔融分割在可逆曲线上,但过快的升温速率和过长的调制周期会导致PLA相转变时的周期数过少,DSC调制功能的分辨率下降,设置测试条件时需综合考虑。     

示差扫描量热法进展及其在高分子表征中的应用

示差扫描量热法(DSC)是表征材料热性能和热反应的一种高效研究工具,具有操作简便、应用广泛、测量值物理意义明确等优点.近年来DSC技术的发展大大拓展了高分子材料表征的测试范围,促进了对高分子物理转变的热力学和动力学的深入研究.温度调制示差扫描量热法(TMDSC)是DSC在20世纪90年代的标志性进展,它在传统DSC的线性升温速率的基础之上引入了调制速率,从而可将总热流信号分解为可逆信号和不可逆信号两部分,并能测量准等温过程的可逆热容.闪速示差扫描量热法(FSC)是DSC技术近年来的创新性发展,它采用体积微小的氮化硅薄膜芯片传感器替代传统DSC的坩埚作为试样容器和控温系统,实现了超快速的升降温扫描速率以及微米尺度上的样品测试,使得对于高分子在扫描过程中的结构重组机制的分析以及对实际的生产加工条件的直接模拟成为可能.本文从热分析基础出发,依次对传统DSC、TMDSC和FSC进行了介绍,内容覆盖其发展历史、方法原理、操作技巧及其在高分子表征中的应用举例,最后对DSC未来的发展和应用进行了展望.本文希望通过综述DSC原理、实验技巧和应用进展,帮助读者加深对DSC这一常用表征技术的理解,进一步拓展DSC表征高分子材料的应用.     

接枝共聚法制备聚乙二醇(PEG)/聚乙烯醇(PVA)高分子固-固相变材料性能研究

用接枝共聚法将具有相变特征的聚乙二醇(PEG)接枝到具有较高熔点的聚乙烯醇(PVA)主链上,得到了系列性能稳定的PEG/PVA高分子固-固相转变材料,用DSC,WAXD和POM对其相变行为及形态结构进行了研究.结果表明,该材料呈现出可逆的固-固相转变特性;其结晶峰值温度和相变焓比纯PEG低,接枝率对相变温度和归一化相变焓影响不大;接枝率只影响结晶与熔融行为,不影响结晶结构.     

用α-Al2O3研究比热测试与MDSC条件的相关性

通过α-Al2O3的比热测试,研究了调制式差示扫描量热法(MDSC)测量比热(Cp)与温度(T)、线性升温速率(β)、温度调制振幅(AT)和调制周期(ρ)的相关性,并对测试误差进行校正.实验结果表明:Cp随T提高和ρ延长而增大;但β和AT对Cp影响不大;ρ=30 s时实测值(Cpms)与文献值(Csptd)的相对误差(Erms)最小,在温度为100~200℃范围小于3%;导出了对Cpms进行修正的多项式校正参数,在ρ为20~50 s、温度为100~200℃范围,修正后的比热(Cpmd)与文献值的相对误差(Ermd)小于1.5%.     

高分子结晶和熔融行为的Flash DSC研究进展

近年来,作为常规示差扫描量热仪(DSC)技术的发展,商业化的快速扫描芯片量热技术(fast-scan chip-calorimeter,FSC)对推动高分子结晶学研究进展发挥了重要的作用.本文首先介绍了闪速示差扫描量热仪Flash DSC的研发历程及其对高分子结晶样品的测试技术,然后举例介绍了其在高分子结晶和熔融行为研究中的一些应用,包括总结晶动力学、晶体成核动力学、成核剂和填料对结晶的影响、共聚单元对结晶的影响、多重熔融峰的鉴定、折叠链片晶的不可逆和可逆熔化、以及极性大分子晶体的熔融等.Flash DSC极大地扩展了扫描温度速率范围,使得其研究的时间窗口能与实际高分子材料加工过程和计算机分子模拟的时间窗口相互匹配,所提供的综合信息有助于我们更好地理解高分子结晶、退火和熔融行为的微观机理.     

有机蒙脱土对端羧基聚丁二烯凝胶流变行为的影响

在恒定剪切速率下,利用旋转流变仪研究端羧基聚丁二烯/蒙脱土纳米复合凝胶的流变行为,同时利用X-射线衍射(XRD)和透射电镜(TEM)等表征手段研究其微观结构.研究结果表明,该体系在26～116℃的升-降温过程中,观察到不可逆转变和可逆转变两种流变行为,其中不可逆转变流变行为归因于蒙脱土片层的剥离过程,而可逆转变流变行为...     

动态分析解析解方法研究可逆吸附及不可逆吸附在多相催化反应中的作用

提出了一个多相催化反应中可逆吸附物种及不可逆吸附物种同时参与反应的动态分析解析解新模型。在同时考虑轴向扩散、不可逆物种吸附速率以及可逆物种和不可逆物种表面反应速率的情况下,通过解析解对实验曲线进行拟合计算,即可求出各反应的速率常数。在不同简化条件下,由解析解可自然得到稳态方程、不可逆物种表面反应流出曲线解析解以及迎头吸附流出曲线解析解等。通过理论计算,考察了各速率参数对流出曲线的影响。     

临界点二级相变的有限时间热力学逼近

应用内可逆卡诺循环的方法,导出了各种物质在临界点附近可逆与不可逆二级相变普遍适用的比热跃变公式以及广义的爱伦菲斯特方程。对简单(P,V,T)系统、超导、电介质顺电一铁电二级相变进行了应用讨论。     

The heat capacity of polymers

The long path to an understanding of heat capacity is traced from isothermal and adiabatic calorimetries to the most recent three methods of isoperibol, scanning, and temperature-modulated calorimetry (TMDSC). These latter three methods are: the traditional method of scanning thermal analysis; the quasi-isothermal method of finding the maximum amplitude of the periodic heat flow in response to a temperature modulation at a constant base temperature; and the pseudo-isothermal analysis of a temperature-modulated scanning experiment by subtracting the effect due to the underlying constant heating rate. In parallel, the development of the knowledge about phases and molecules is traced from its beginning to present-day nanophases and macromolecules.     

Some remarks on heat capacity measurements by temperature-modulated calorimetry

In temperature-modulated calorimetry, the condition in sample amount, especially thickness, required for high-accuracy heat capacity measurement should be made clear. We propose the condition of maximum thickness of a sample for measuring heat capacity within an accuracy of 1%. The other important factor for high-accuracy heat capacity measurement is thermal contact conductance between a sample and a sample pan and also that between a pan and a base plate of an apparatus. The conditions in these thermal contact conductances required for high-accuracy heat capacity measurement are discussed. Among them, if only thermal contact conductance between a pan and a base plate is significant, there is an ingenious method to measure heat capacity with high accuracy. Furthermore, if the thermal contact conductance between a pan and a base plate is infinite, we offer a simple method to obtain complex heat capacity.     

Temperature-Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry IX. Some comments on the rigid amorphous fraction in semi-crystalline poly(ethylene terephthalate)

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The increment of heat capacity at the glass transition for semi-crystalline poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) observed by temperature-modulated...     

Heat Capacity Measurements Using Temperature-modulated Heat Flux DSC with Close Control of the Heater Temperature

The determination of heat capacity data with sawtooth-type, temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry is analyzed using the Mettler-Toledo 820 ADSC™temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimeter (TMDSC). Heat capacities were calculated via the amplitudes of the first and higher harmonics of the Fourier series of the heat flow and heating rates. At modulation periods lower than about 150 s, the heat capacity deviates increasingly to smaller values and requires a calibration as function of frequency. An earlier derived correction function which was applied to the sample temperature-controlled power compensation calorimeter enables an empirical correction down to modulation periods of about 20 s. The correction function is determined by analysis of the higher harmonics of the Fourier transform from a single measurement of sufficient long modulation period. The correction function reveals that the time constant of the instrument is about 5 s rad⁻¹ when a standard aluminum pan is used. The influence of pan type and sample mass on the time constant is determined, the correction for the asymmetry of the system is described, and the effect of smoothing of the modulated heat flow rate data is discussed. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Heat capacity of water in nanopores

Heat capacity of controlled amounts of water in Vycor's 2 nm radius pores has been determined in real time during the course of water's isothermal nanoconfinement from bulk state at 358 K, by using temperature-modulated calorimetry. As water transfers from bulk to nanopores via the vapor phase, its heat capacity per molecule increases asymptotically toward a limiting value of 1.4 times the heat capacity of bulk water for 1.8 wt % water in Vycor and 1.04 times for 10.0 wt %. The observations indicate that vibrational and configurational contributions to the heat capacity are highest when the amount of water is insufficient to completely cover the pore wall, and they decrease as more water is present in the nanopores and water clusters form. The heat capacity of water in completely filled nanopores approaches the value for bulk water, thus indicating that the heat capacity varies with the water molecules' position in the nanopores.     

Diagnosis of Phase Shift in a Temperature-Modulated Calorimetric Method

In a temperature-modulated calorimetric method using the same apparatus as a standard differential scanning calorimeter, we have to pay attention to the thermophysical parameters of the apparatus, which cause phase shift in ac temperatures, such as heat capacity of base plate, heat capacity of a pan, thermal conductance between a heater and base plate, and thermal conductance between a pan and base plate. We performed the analysis of the thermal system of the apparatus with these parameters. Beside the theoretical consideration, we carried out heat capacity measurement in a wide range of modulation periods. We found that the experimental results were well-expressed in terms of these thermophysical parameters. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Reversible melting of high molar mass poly(oxyethylene)

The heat capacity, C_p, of poly(oxyethylene), POE, with a molar mass of 900,000 Da, was analyzed by temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry, TMDSC. The high molar mass POE crystals are in a folded-chain macroconformation and show some locally reversible melting, starting already at about 250 K. At 335 K the thermodynamic heat capacity reaches the level of the melt. The end of melting of a high-crystallinity sample was analyzed quasi-isothermally with varying modulation amplitudes from 0.2 to 3.0 K to study the reversible crystallinity. A new internal calibration method was developed which allows to quantitatively assess small fractions of reversibly melting crystals in the presence of the reversible heat capacity and large amounts of irreversible melting. The specific reversibility decreases to small values in the vicinity of the end of melting, but does not seem to go to zero. The reversible melting is close to symmetric with a small fraction crystallizing slower than melting, i.e., under the chosen condition some of the melting and crystallization remains reversing. The collected data behave as one expects for a crystallization governed by molecular nucleation and not as one would expect from the formation of an intermediate mesophase on crystallization. The method developed allows a study of the active surface of melting and crystallization of flexible macromolecules.     

Cell asymmetry correction for temperature modulated differential scanning calorimetry

The quality of measurement of heat capacity by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is based on strict symmetry of the twin calorimeter. This symmetry is of particular importance for temperature-modulated DSC (TMDSC) since positive and negative deviations from symmetry cannot be distinguished in the most popular analysis methods. The heat capacities for sapphire-filled and empty aluminum calorimeters (pans) under designed cell imbalance caused by different pan-masses were measured. In addition, the positive and negative signs of asymmetry have been explored by analyzing the phase-shift between temperature and heat flow for sapphire and empty runs. The phase shifts change by more than 180° depending on the sign of the asymmetry. Once the sign of asymmetry is determined, the asymmetry correction for temperature-modulated DSC can be made.On leave from Toray Research Center, Inc., Otsu, Shiga 520, JapanThis work was supported by the Division of Materials Research, National Science Foundation, Polymers Program, Grant # DMR 90-00520 and the Division of Materials Sciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corp. for the U.S. Department of Energy, under contract number DE-AC05-960R22464.     

Calorimetric study of the conformational relaxation times in polystyrene

The temperature dependence of the relaxation times of the structural relaxation process of polystyrene is determined by temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry (TMDSC) and by conventional differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) in the latter by modelling the experimental heat capacity curves measured in heating scans after different thermal histories. The good agreement between both measuring techniques in the temperature interval just above the glass-transition temperature is a guide for the interpretation of the results of the TMDSC technique in the glass-transition region. In addition, the same model applied to DSC scans is used to simulate the TMDSC experiment and the calculated response is compared with the measured scans. Received: 22 February 1999 Accepted in revised form: 11 June 1999