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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
   
Advanced Methods of Polymer Analysis - M112017
Title: Pokročilé metody analýzy polymerů
Form of teaching: lecture
Guaranteed by: Department of Polymers (112)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology
Actual: from 2024 to 2025
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:3
E-Credits: winter s.:3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Repeated enrollment: - / - / - / 9
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Merna Jan prof. Ing. Ph.D.
Hrdlička Zdeněk doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Classification: Chemistry > Analytical Chemistry
Interchangeability : N112045
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
The course focuses on advanced methods of analysis of polymers, e.g. measurement of rheological, mechanical, thermal and spectroscopic properties. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between structure and properties. The course extends knowledge gained in course Characterization of Polymers.
Last update: Merna Jan (09.09.2026)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Zkouškový test.

Last update: Merna Jan (09.09.2026)
Literature - Czech

Povinná:

  • Podzimek, Štěpán. Light scattering, size exclusion chromatography and asymmetric flow field flow fractionation, powerful tools for the characterization of polymers, proteins and nanoparticles. Hoboken: Wiley, 2011, s. ISBN 978-0-470-38617-0.
  • Malkin A.Y., Isayev A.I.. Rheology. Concepts, Methods & Applications.. Toronto: ChemTec Publishing, 2006, s. ISBN 9781895198331.

Doporučená:

  • Striegel, André M.. Modern size-exclusion liquid chromatography, practice of gel permeation and gel filtration chromatography. Hoboken: Wiley, 2009, s. ISBN 978-0-471-20172-4.
  • Ward, I.M., Hadley, D.W.. An Introduction to the Mechanical Properties of Solid Polymers. Chichester: Xiley, 1998, s. ISBN 0-471-93887-4.
  • Mills, N. J.. Plastics, microstructure and [engineering] applications. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005, https://vufind.techlib.cz/Record/000171972 s. ISBN 0-7506-5148-2.
  • Strobl, Gert R.. The physics of polymers, concepts for understanding their structures and behavior. Berlin ;, New York: Springer, 2007, https://vufind.techlib.cz/Record/000940269 s. ISBN 978-3-540-25278-8.

Last update: prepocet_literatura.php (19.12.2024)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Zkouškový test.

Last update: Merna Jan (09.09.2026)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction, Structure vs. Properties of Polymers

2. Composition of Polymer Materials (Polymers and Additives)

3. Methods for Characterizing Thermal Properties (DSC, DMA, TGA), Sample Data

4. Spectroscopic Methods (UV, IR, NMR)

5. Methods for determining the molar mass of polymers, SEC, calibration,

6. Advanced detectors for SEC, demonstration of instruments and data

7. Polymer Fractionation (FFF, TREF, CRYSTAF), MALDI-TOF MS

8. Flow properties of polymers, viscosity, influence of external factors on viscosity

9. Measurement of viscosity of polymeric substances: rotational and capillary viscometers

10. Viscosity measurements of polymeric substances: plate plastometers, ball and special viscometers

11. Determination of crosslinking characteristics of rubber compounds and thermosets

12. (Quasi)-static mechanical testing of polymeric materials

13. Dynamic mechanical testing of polymeric materials

14. Methods of surface analysis of polymeric materials (optical microscopy, SEM, TEM, AFM)

Last update: Merna Jan (09.09.2026)
Learning resources -

Selected presentations available from teacher or in the e-learning.

Last update: Merna Jan (09.09.2026)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

orient themselves in the methods of analysis of polymers

select the appropriate method for determining the structure and properties of polymers

Last update: Merna Jan (09.09.2026)
Entry requirements - Czech

Jsou vyžadovány základní znalosti makromolekulární chemie.

Last update: Merna Jan (09.09.2026)
Registration requirements -

Macromolecular chemistry

Last update: Hrdlička Zdeněk (13.09.2024)
 
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