Characterising polymer surfaces—nanoindentation, surface force data, calorimetric microscopy

Autor: Hubert M. Pollock, N S Lawson, M. Reading, Douglas J. Hourston, R H Ion
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Physica Scripta. :199-205
ISSN: 1402-4896
0031-8949
DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/1994/t55/035
Popis: Techniques now exist that allow near-surface mechanical and thermal properties of polymers to be measured at very high depth resolution. We review the use of: nanoindentation (hardness, modulus, flow properties, profilometry); force spectroscopy (adhesion, attractive forces and their variation with separation); and scanning calorimetric microscopy (image contrast determined by spatial variation of thermal conductivity, heat capacity, or reversing/non-reversing behaviour, as a function of temperature).
Databáze: OpenAIRE