The energy needed to increase the temperature of a material is measured as heat capacity, which is a structure sensitive property. Traditional differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) can readily ...
Poly(vinyl methyl ether) (PVME) is a classical example of a polymer presenting an lower critical solution temperature at a moderate temperature range of around 35 °C, 5, 6 above which the solution ...
In DSC, the heat flow determined is directly proportional to the specific heat capacity. Hence C p is calculated directly from the DSC signal (Φ meas). In order to do this, the DSC curve is corrected ...