Biopolymers are produced fully or partially from biobased materials. These biologically degradable materials serve as an alternative to the long-life-cycle polymers manufactured from oil and fossil raw materials.
Thermal analysis can be applied to explore polymers extracted from renewable biomass, generated directly by organisms or synthesized from bio-derived monomers. The most essential physical properties measured are the decomposition temperatures, glass transition, and crystallization.
The four major methods of thermal analysis – DSC, TGA, TMA, and DMA – can be applied to characterize polymers as a function of temperature across a broad temperature range, from –150 to 1600 °C.
In this webinar, the use of thermal analysis to analyze biopolymers is illustrated, and a selection of typical instances of samples measured by TGA, DSC, DMA or TMA are shown.
The presentation will conclude with a Q&A so participants can have their most pressing application questions answered.