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
- Fundamentals of Polymers.
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR): Principles and Applications on Polymer Characterization.
- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR): Fundamentals, applications on Polymer Science, instrumentation and sample preparation.
- Static Light Scattering on Polymer Characterization.
- Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC or GPC): Molar Mass Determination and Polydispersity. Coupling with Light Scattering.
- 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
- Bandrup, J; Immergut, E. H. Polymer Handbook. Wiley, New York, 1989.
- Canevarolo Júnior, S.V. Técnicas de Caracterização de Polímeros. Artliber, São Paulo, 2007.
- Cheremisinoff, N. P. Polymer Characterization: Laboratory Techniques and Analysis, Noyes Publications, New Jersey, 1996
- Hiemenz, P.C.; Lodge, T. Polymer Chemistry. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2007.
- Ibett, R.N. NMR spectroscopy of Polymers. Blackie Academic & Professional, New York, 1993.
- Sandler, S. R. Polymer Synthesis and Characterization: a Laboratory Manual. Academic Press, SanDiego, 1998.
- Silverstein, R. M.; Webster, F.X.; Kiemle, D. J. Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds. John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey, 2005.
- Sperling, FH. Introduction to Physical Polymer Science. 4th edition. John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey, 2006.
- Wu, Chi-San. Handbook of Size Exclusion Chromatography. Marcel Dekker, New York, 2004.