Thermal Portrayal of Phase Separation in Polymers Producing Nanophase Separated Materials

Abstract

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and other methods of thermal analysis provide a lot of information about phase behaviour and physical properties of heterogeneous systems. This information is usually supplied by information provided by other methods, e.g., optical microscopy, X-ray and neutron diffraction, etc. Advantage of methods of thermal analysis consists in small amount of material necessary for the measurement, simple sample preparation and short measuring time.