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PEM5145 - Polymer Characterization

Form professor

Prof. Dr. Fábio Herbst Florenzano

Workload

Theoretical Practical Study Duration Total Credits
2 hours/week 2 hours/week 4 hours/week 15 weeks 120 hours 8
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Concentration area

97135 - Conventional and Advanced Materials

Objectives

To allow the student to comprehend the meaning of results obtained by some of the major polymer characterization techniques in use nowadays. To show such techniques in a practical way and put it in the context of their most common applications as well as in the contemporary research.

Motivation

Polymeric materials occupy a major place in the field of Materials Science. Their application as conventional or advanced materials grows constantly in number and complexity. The polymer properties are directly bound to its chemical structure and to parameters such as average molar mass and polydispersity, composition, chain architecture and others. Therefore, polymer characterization is fundamental to the study of new polymeric materials, allowing the development of property/structure relationships as well as to ensure that the material in use is exactly that it has been planned and designed for a specific use.

Syllabus

  1. Fundamentals of Polymers.
  2. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR): Principles and Applications on Polymer Characterization.
  3. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR): Fundamentals, applications on Polymer Science, instrumentation and sample preparation.
  4. Static Light Scattering on Polymer Characterization.
  5. Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC or GPC): Molar Mass Determination and Polydispersity. Coupling with Light Scattering.
  6. Hiphenated Techniques and others.

Evaluation criteria

An oral presentation with a written manuscript attached (S) and a written test (P). The final grade is calculated as follows: (S + P)/2.

References