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Polymer Microstructures. Modification and Characterisation by Fluid Sorption

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Polymer micro-organisation can be modified by combination of the three constraints, thermal, hydrostatic and fluid sorption. In selecting the fluid's nature, chemically active or inert, and its physical state, liquid or supercritical, new “materials” can be generated. In addition, the interplay of temperature and pressure allows tailoring the obtained material structure for specific applications. Several complementary techniques have been developed to modify, analyze and characterize the end products: scanning transitiometry, vibrating wire (VW)-PVT coupling, thermoporosimetry, temperature modulated DSC (TMDSC), sorptometry. The great variety of possible applications in materials science is illustrated with different polymers which can produce materials from soft gel to rigid foams when submitted to fluid sorption, typical fluids being methane, or a simple gas (CO2 or N2). Absorption of an appropriate fluid in a cross linked polymer leads to a swelling phenomenon. Thermoporosimetry is a calorimetric technique developed to measure the shift by confinement of thermal transition temperatures of the swelling fluids, which can be currently used solvents or mercury. Application of thermoporosimetry to a swollen cross linked polymer allows to calculate the mesh size distribution and to evaluate the degree of reticulation of the polymer. The same technique can be applied to characterise the pore size distribution in a foamed polymer.
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hal-00360417 , version 1 (11-02-2009)

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Séverine A.E. Boyer, Mohamed Baba, Jean-Marie Nedelec, Jean-Pierre E. Grolier. Polymer Microstructures. Modification and Characterisation by Fluid Sorption. International Journal of Thermophysics, 2008, 29, pp.1907-1920. ⟨10.1007/s10765-008-0386-0⟩. ⟨hal-00360417⟩
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