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Recent Advances and Applications of “Successive Self‐Nucleation and Annealing” ( SSA ) High Speed Thermal Fractionation
Author(s) -
Müller Alejandro J.,
Lorenzo Arnaldo T.,
Arnal María L.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 1022-1360
DOI - 10.1002/masy.200950325
Subject(s) - fractionation , nucleation , materials science , annealing (glass) , thermal , nanocomposite , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , composite material , chemistry , chromatography , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , physics , engineering
The Successive Self‐nucleation and Annealing ( SSA ) thermal fractionation technique is briefly reviewed to highlight recent advances such as the use of high speed DSC concepts to perform faster fractionation. Additionally, recent applications of SSA to characterize confined semi‐crystalline model polyethylenes in block copolymer nanophases and in situ prepared nanocomposites with carbon nanotubes are also reviewed. A novel result presented here deals with the use of a macromolecular plasticizer to improve the quality of SSA thermal fractionation.