The thermodynamic and relaxational behavior of molecular and
polymeric systems is fundamentally important to the development of new materials or to the
implementation of existing systems for new applications. Two powerful and
complementary tools in the arsenal of techniques employed by material chemists for
investigating the thermophysical behavior of materials are modulated differential scanning
calorimetry (MDSC) and dielectrometry. Determination of the reversible and
irreversible contributions of thermodynamic phase transitions in soft matter, the
optimization of thermal cure profiles of reactive resins, and the ionic conduction and
molecular relaxation of ceramic and polymeric solids electrolytes are but a few of the
materials development applications for which these techniques play an essential role at
SwRI.
The thermodynamic and relaxational behavior of molecular and
polymeric systems is fundamentally important to the development of new materials or to the
implementation of existing systems for new applications. Two powerful and
complementary tools in the arsenal of techniques employed by material chemists for
investigating the thermophysical behavior of materials are modulated differential scanning
calorimetry (MDSC) and dielectrometry. Determination of the reversible and
irreversible contributions of thermodynamic phase transitions in soft matter, the
optimization of thermal cure profiles of reactive resins, and the ionic conduction and
molecular relaxation of ceramic and polymeric solids electrolytes are but a few of the
materials development applications for which these techniques play an essential role at
SwRI.
