Golden Gate Polymer Forum, Tuesday Evening, Feb. 28, 2012
Topic: "Fast-Scan Differential Scanning Calorimetry - Practical Applications in Research & Quality Labs in Polymer Industry"
Speaker: Jun Wang, Application Scientist, Thermal/Elemental Analysis
PerkinElmer
Date and Time: Feb. 28, 6:00 pm
6:00 PM social hour
7:00 PM dinner
8:00 PM presentation
Location: Michael's at Shoreline Park, 2960 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View
Costs:
GGPF Registration timelines and pricing policy.
There is a discount for early registration in addition to a penalty for late registration.
See the table below.
This is effective for all monthly dinner lectures.
Registration may close earlier than the nominal deadline if capacity is reached.
Employed/postdoc Student/unemployed/retired
Early Registration $30 $15
Regular Registration Up to Registration Deadline $35 (30+5) $20 (15+5)
After Deadline / Walk-in (Availability NOT guaranteed) $40 (30+10) $25 (15+10)
Register at www.GGPF.org
Dinner Selections:
Broiled salmon, lemon beurre blanc
Chicken, herb butter sauce
Eggplant parmagiana
Cost:
Employed/postdocs: $30 advance registration, $35 regular registration
Unemployed/retired/students: $15 advance registration, $20 regular registration
Free if you attend just the lectures at 8:00 PM (but please let us know for headcount)
After deadline:
registration not guaranteed, so contact us
late fee applies -- $40 regular/employed, $25 unemployed/student/retired
Deadlines for registration:
Advance registration discount ends 5pm Monday, Feb. 20
Regular on-line registration ends 5pm Monday, Feb. 27
Note: that is Presidents' Day holiday / don't miss early discount because of the holiday.
Because we must pay the restaurant for the ordered meal, we must ask no-shows to pay for their reservation.
However, penalty-free cancellations are allowed up until the deadline for reservations the day before the event.
Topic Description
HyperDSC®, or Fast-Scan DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry), is a breakthrough thermal analysis technique using very fast temperature scanning rates (up to 750 °C/min in heating mode and over 2000 °C/min in cooling mode) over a broad temperature range. The benefits of fast scanning include 1. increased sensitivity, 2. ability to measure sample properties without unwanted annealing effects, 3. separation of overlapping events with different kinetics, and 4. high throughput. A variety of applications including thermosets, thermoplastics and pharmaceutical polymers will be presented: detecting weak transitions; handling smaller samples; exposing a buried Tg; suppressing unwanted changes (e.g., cold crystallization, curing) on heating; moving competing events (e.g., water evaporation, thermal degradation) to a different temperature; mimicking real world heating and cooling cycles; and limiting decomposition in biological materials. Fast scanning provides a new solution to the challenges in material processes and characterization in the polymer industry.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Jun Wang is an application scientist at PerkinElmer specializing in thermal analysis, elemental analysis, and hyphenated techniques. Jun received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah and did his Postdoctoral work in thermal analysis of polymers, combustion simulation of energetic materials, and characterization of novel catalysts for synthesizing new generation fuels. Previously, Jun worked as a research scientist at the Institute of Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing where he focused on developing high-performance conductive polymers.
