WEBINAR: What can real time image capture bring to your polymer thermal analysis results?
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Although thermal analysis techniques like DSC, STA, DMA and TMA have been around for a long time, it’s sometimes a challenge to know what is really happening to our polymers during an experiment. Being able to see what happening within the furnace of a thermal analysis instrument can provide valuable information such as sample positioning, size/shape and color change.
Understanding thermal analysis results can be challenging especially when you don’t have much experience with the technique. It can also be laborious to explain how different thermal analysis techniques work and the information you get out if it to people without experience. Being able to see the sample during a measurement helps to either understand results or explain them clearly.
This presentation will go through the advantages of being able to see the samples while using thermal analysis techniques (DSC, TGA, STA and DMA). Real examples will be used to show the power of the techniques and it will also cover the extra information which can be extracted from a visible image (e.g. RGB values).
Presenter:
- Olivier Savard, Thermal Analysis Sales Manager
Before joining Hitachi, Olivier worked as a material characterization application specialist for PerkinElmer UK and Canada. He obtained his baccalaureate in chemistry (B.SC.) from Université Laval (Québec City, Québec) in 2002, and his master in polymer chemistry (M.SC.) from Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, British Columbia) working with Prof. Steven Holdcroft. In his thesis he worked on the synthesis and characterization of novel sulfonated polyimides for high temperature proton exchange member fuel cells.
