Browsing by Subject "Calorimetry"
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A novel comparative study of different layered silicate clay types on exfoliation process and final nanostructure of trifunctional epoxy nanocomposites
(2016-12)
Article
Open AccessThe effect of three different organically modified layered silicate clays (Nanomer I.30E, Cloisite 30B and Nanofil SE 3000) on the exfoliation process and on the thermal properties and nanostructure of cured trifunctional ... -
Bioactive edible films based on arrowroot starch incorporated with cranberry powder: microstructure, thermal properties, ascorbic acid content and sensory analysis
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2019-10-11)
Article
Open AccessThe growing global awareness about environmental preservation has stimulated the search for alternatives to replace conventional plastics made from fossil sources. One of the advantages is using polymers from renewable ... -
Composition determination of rubber blends by applying differential scanning calorimetry and SPA-PLS treatment
(2019-01-07)
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Open AccessThis paper proposes an innovative approach to determine the composition of natural rubber (NR) and styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) blends from the analysis of the data provided by the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) ... -
Crystalline tetrazepam as a case study on the volume change on melting of molecular organic compounds
(2021-01-25)
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Open AccessThe volume change on melting is a rarely studied quantity and it is not well understood even if it must reflect the changes in interaction between the solid and the liquid state. It is part of the solid-state information ... -
Densification: A route towards enhanced thermal conductivity of epoxy composites
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021-01)
Article
Open AccessWhen an amorphous polymer is cooled under pressure from above its glass transition temperature to room temperature, and then the pressure is released, this results in a densified state of the glass. This procedure applied ... -
Determination of the glass transition temperature: methods correlation and structural heterogeneity
(2009-12)
Article
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe definition of the glass transition temperature, Tg, is recalled and its experimental determination by various techniques is reviewed. The diversity of values of Tg obtained by the different methods is discussed, with ... -
Differential scanning calorimetry and elasticity of textured, heat set and mechanical strained polylactide multifilaments
(2011)
Article
Restricted access - publisher's policyIndustrially textured PLA multifilaments were heat set under different conditions at 110 ºC for 1 min and subjected to one cycle of deformation up to 20%. Thermal transitions of the original textured, heat set and cyclic ... -
Efectes calòrics en l’estat sòlid induïts per camps hidrostàtics
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-09)
Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
Open AccessAquest projecte s’emmarca en la fase d’investigació fonamental dels efectes calòrics resultants de l’aplicació d’un camp hidrostàtic. L’objectiu és valorar les mostres seleccionades com a possibles candidates per a futures ... -
Enhancement in the glass transition temperature in latent thiol-epoxy click cured thermosets
(2015-01-01)
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Open AccessTri and tetrafunctional thiol were used as curing agent for diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) catalyzed by a commercially available amine precursor, LC-80. Triglycidyl isocianurate (TGIC) was added in different ... -
Epoxy composites filled with boron nitride and aluminum nitride for improved thermal conductivity
(2017-03-03)
Article
Restricted access - publisher's policyEpoxy composites containing boron nitride (BN) or aluminum nitride (AlN or Al2N3) particles have been studied with a view to obtaining increased thermal conductivity. The effect of these fillers on the cure reaction has ... -
Epoxy-thiol systems filled with boron nitride for high thermal conductivity applications
(2018-03-20)
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Open AccessAn epoxy-thiol system filled with boron nitride (BN), in the form of 80 µm agglomerates, has been investigated with a view to achieving enhanced thermal conductivity. The effect of BN content on the cure reaction kinetics ... -
Estudi sobre la influència de la fibra reciclada de polièster sobre la intensitat de color
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-02-03)
Bachelor thesis
Restricted access - author's decisionLa producció de fibres de polièster ha estat present i en augment des de la seva sortida al mercat l’any 1951, sent una de les fibres amb major nombre d’aplicacions. Tot i les grans avantatges que ofereix, el procés ... -
Fluorescent thiol-epoxy thermosets obtained from diglycidylether of bisphenol A and carbazole based diepoxy monomer
(2017-07-01)
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Open AccessA new epoxy resin containing carbazole moieties was synthesized and added in several proportions to diglycidylether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) and trimethylolpropane tris(3-mercaptopropionate) (TTMP) formulations that were ... -
Fragility and glass-forming ability of the Ca-Mg-Cu system
(Elsevier, 2007-05-31)
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Open AccessElastic moduli of the glass and fragility of the corresponding supercooled liquid were found to be correlated in recently published results. In the present work, compositions within the Ca–Mg–Cu system are used to study ... -
Giant barocaloric effects at low pressure in ferrielectric ammonium sulphate
(2015-11-01)
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Open AccessCaloric effects are currently under intense study due to the prospect of environment-friendly cooling applications. Most of the research is centred on large magnetocaloric effects and large electrocaloric effects, but the ... -
Heat sink avalanche dynamics in elastocaloric Cu-Al-Ni single crystal detected by infrared calorimetry and Gaussian filtering
(2021-10-11)
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Open AccessThe physics behind the cooling process occurring in an elastocaloric Cu–Al–Ni wire during the martensite to austenite transition after stress release is studied. A previous experiment using infrared imaging determined the ... -
Highly exfoliated nanostructure in trifunctional epoxy/clay nanocomposites using boron trifluoride as initiator
(Wiley, 2014-03-15)
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Open AccessEpoxy/clay nanocomposites based upon a trifunctional epoxy resin, triglycidyl p-amino phenol (TGAP), have been prepared by intercalating an initiator of cationic homopolymerization, a boron trifluoride monoethylamine ... -
Inverse barocaloric effects in ferroelectric BaTiO3 ceramics
(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2016-09-19)
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Open AccessWe use calorimetry to identify pressure-driven isothermal entropy changes in ceramic samples of the prototypical ferroelectric BaTiO3. Near the structural phase transitions at ~400 K (cubic-tetragonal) and ~280 K ... -
Isothermal and non-isothermal cure of a tri-functional epoxy resin (TGAP): a stochastic TMDSC study
(2012-02-10)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThe isothermal cure of a highly reactive tri-functional epoxy resin, tri-glycidyl para-amino phenol (TGAP), with diamino diphenyl sulphone (DDS), at two different cure temperatures Tc has been studied by both conventional ... -
Measurement at n_TOF of the 237 Np(n,gamma) and 240 Pu(n,gamma) Cross Sections for the Transmutation of Nuclear Waste
(2006)
Conference report
Open AccessThe final design, safety assessment and precise performance analysis of transmutation devices such as Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS) or Fast Critical Reactors, need accurate and reliable nuclear data. The cross sections ...
