Characterization Lab

Polymer Characterization
20 MTEN 732 001
Quarter: Winter, 2005
LEVEL: Dual (Required Graduate; Undergraduate Elective)

PREREQUISITES:

Courses typically taught in Materials Engineering at the undergraduate level as follow.
A Course similar to Introduction to Polymers
A background in rheology and fluid dynamics
An introductory course in mechanical properties of materials and faliure analysis
A course in Polymer Analysis or Chemical Analysis
Background in x-ray diffraction.
Some understanding of the morphology of polymers.
The ability to write a simple computer program.
**760 Baldwin for Full Class 12 MWF, TBA for Labs (see specific lab below)**
Prof. Gregory Beaucage beaucag@uc.edu 556-3063/-5152(Lab)/-9305(Lab) 540 ERC/551 ERC and 410 Rhodes (Labs)	Dale Weber 556-3127 523 Rhodes Hall	Teaching Assistant: Amit Kulkarni, PhD Candidate kulkaras@email.uc.edu 556-5152 410 Rhodes Hall

Group

First	Last	Lab Group	Meeting Time Wednesday	Reverse Engineering Topic
Kathleen	Allen	A	9-11 AM	Films
Robert	Cain	A
Tiffany	Nelson	A
Michael	Franks	A
Yan	Guo	B	11 AM-1 PM	Scotch Tapes
Peng	Wang	B
Man	Xu	B
Peng	Lai	B
Aniruddha	Palsule	C	3-5 PM	Golf Balls
Brian	Stephens	C
Christopher	Babel	C

SCHEDULE

Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Finals Week
Jan. 5	Jan. 12	Jan. 19	Jan. 26	Feb. 2	Feb. 9	Feb. 16	Feb. 23	Mar. 2	Mar. 9	Mar. 14
Lab 1	Lab 2	Lab 3	Lab 4	Lab 5	Lab 6	Lab 7	Lab 8	Lab 9	12 to 2
Rheology	Instron	DSC	IV/GPC (Required GPC Demo Time TBA)	NMR/IR (IR Lab and Required NMR Demo time TBA)	XRD	Microscope	SEM	SAXS	Room TBA
Rhodes 505	Rhodes 505	Rhodes 505	Rhodes 505	Computer Program Due Friday at 5 PM in Rhodes 410	Rhodes 505				Reverse Engineering Project Presentations (Wednesday)	Reverse Engineering Group Report Due Monday 5 pm Rhodes 410

Currently, 12 students are registered for Polymer Characterization. The class will be divided into 3 groups of 4 students. All groups will meet on Wednesday at the specified times (see table above) to be instructed on each lab. The 3 credits of lab for this course convert to 9 hours of lab time which the students can complete at any time that access to the instruments is available (see Dale Weber). A take home quiz on the lab write-up and supporting documentation will be required at the start of each lab.

The numbers in the table above correspond to the lab number given below. Students are expected to be familiar with the lab prior to the specified instruction period.

Parts: (html)
Background Class on Analysis.html

Computer Program Problem.html
Free Mac Software that may be useful for Computer Program Project
(A free PC version called Scion Image for Windows, is available from Scion Corporation
Password Name="computer" password="yoyo".)

Parts of a Marco in Scion that may be of some use
(Keep in mind that there are many ways to work this program. e.g. you could use scions graphic interface commands to pick circular pieces.)

Reverse Engineering Project.html

PLEASE DO NOT PUT THIS QUARTER PROJECT OFF TO THE LAST MINUTE!!!

Labs
Lab	html file	Background Notes:	Sample Data:
Lab 1 Jan. 5	Melt Viscosity Quiz (Complete prior to lab)	Background.html Polymer Melt Rheology/Viscometric Flow.html Melt Viscosity Option A (OLD).html Text for Lab: Middleman Chapter 5: Viscometric Flows Middleman Chapter 3: Introduction to Polymer Flow	Data 2005 Winter Collected Fall '01 Excel MW in g/mole and viscosity in cp for PDMS WLF Parameters for PDMS 2001 Eric, Ayush, Tingtai Data Group 5 (Jim Chen et al) 2000 PDMS Reaction Data Viscosity Versus Shear Rate and Temperature for Final PDMS Reaction Viscometer Data 2000
Lab 2 Jan. 12	Tensile / Impact Quiz (Complete prior to lab)	Polymer Stress Strain Notes Morphology of Polymer Deformation Mechanics of Materials	Data Winter 2005.zip; Picture of Samples Fall 2001 Data Group 1, Group 2, Group 4, Group 6, Impact Test Older Data 1999 Instron Data and Several Groups from 2000 Data
Lab 3 Jan. 19	DSC/DTA/TGA Quiz (Complete prior to lab)	Thermal Analysis.html Semicrystalline Morphology.html University of Southern Mississippi Page on DSC Library on DSC, TGA, MDSC, DMA Modulated DSC Summary.pdf	W05 DSC Data PET and PP TGA Scans F01 (Check for Updates) DSC Scans F01 (Please check for updates) Isothermal Crystallization Analysis DSC Trace for PET
Lab 4 Jan. 26 (Normal Lab and a Required GPC Demo Time TBA)	GPC/Intrinsic Viscosity.html (Please bring a stopwatch to lab) Quiz (Complete prior to lab)	Intrinsic Viscosity and MW distribuitons.html Physics of Coil: dilute.html Physics of Coil: semi-dilute.html	Data Winter 05 GPC Curves for PE.xls Intrinsic Viscosity F01 (Check for updates to file) Groups 6 and 3 (2000) Data 38C and 25C PS/Toluene
Lab 5 Feb. 2 (Normal Lab and a Required NMR Demo Time TBA)	Spectroscopy.html Quiz (Complete prior to lab) (Computer Program Project Due this Week Friday at 5 pm)	EM Radiation.html IR.html NMR.html NMR Links IR/NMR Queens U Canada	W05 IR Data Group A, Group B, Group C F01 Combined IR Data IR Data Group 3.xls Proton NMR patterns from Elwood Brooks 10/23/01 Demonstration for Class Polymethylacrylate (missing "Meth" but close...) Some IR data in Excel Spreadsheet NMR data (of Prof. Elwood Brooks, Chemistry) for PMMA Gif's of NMR scans (of Prof. Elwood Brooks, Chemistry) for Commercial and Aldrich Samples
Lab 6 Feb. 9	XRD.html Quiz (Complete prior to lab)	Common Polymer XRD Peaks Polymer XRD.html X-ray Diffraction Class (Undergraduate/Cullity)	W05 Data (Raw data, xls file) PET Recrystallization Data XRD Date F01.xls XRD Pinhole Photos F01 Groups 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6: 2000 data 2 Theta Positions for Polymers Radial and Azimuthal Averages of 2-d PE file for Orientation and DOC Analysis.xls.zip UHMWPE.gif Large 2-d file for computer program 2-d gif for computer program 1-d slice for computer program Oriented Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) Film
Lab 7 Feb. 16	NMR Lab Entire Class Meets at 11 am at the NMR facility in the basement of the Chemistry Tower (NMR Quiz)	MestReC Program (beaucage mestrec) MestReC Lite.zip (8Mb) 1) Open the fid file in mestrec. 2) Do Fourier transform under process option on toolbar. 3) Under Process-Phase Correction-Automatic Phase Correction (Simplex Method). 4) This gives the spectrum ready for analysis from the tools menu. (Pick the peaks before you integrate them.) EM Radiation.html NMR.html NMR Links NMR Queens U Canada	Spectra From E. Brooks W05: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (open with MestReC Lite) Proton NMR patterns from Elwood Brooks 10/23/01 Demonstration for Class Polymethylacrylate (missing "Meth" but close...) NMR data (of Prof. Elwood Brooks, Chemistry) for PMMA Gif's of NMR scans (of Prof. Elwood Brooks, Chemistry) for Commercial and Aldrich Samples
Lab 8 Feb. 23	Optical Microscopy Lab.html (Quiz Microscopy) (OLD Lab NOT DONE: Microscopy.html)	EM Radiation (Analysis).html Morphology Class.html Semicrystalline Morphology.html Deformation Morphology.html Phase Morphology.html	W05 Data Group 1 F01 50C; 62C; 69C; 72C Group 4 F01 60C;65C Group 6 F01 77C Groups 1, 3 and 6 (2000) PHB-co-5%-PHV Micrographs 25, 53, 81 Deg C
Lab 9 (No Lab Mar. 2) Lab Mar. 9 11am One group 3'rd Floor ERC	AFM/ESEM Lab (Quiz AFM/ESEM) (Old Lab SEM Lab.html)	AFM Sites Navy UGuelph Canada Bristol, UK Hobbs Site SEM Sites ESEM UQueensland Australia Iowa State site UK site ESEM Cambridge, UK EM Radiation (Analysis).html Morphology Class.html Semicrystalline Morphology.html Deformation Morphology.html Phase Morphology.html	TEM Images of pressed polypropylene from Ayush Bafna Micrographs from the SEM Lab (Zipped File)
Lab X Not Done this year	SAXS Lab.html	Semi-crystalline Polymer Morphology XRD of Semi-Crystalline Polymers SAXS Notes SAXS/SANS Old Small-Angle Scattering of X-rays.html -Glatter on SAXS -Rod scattering -SAXS Page Drexel -SANS ISIS -SAXS OklU -UNICAT Chicago	2001 Data q* vs Temp data for Hoffman Analysis Aerogel 2D PE isotropic 2D HDPE Aerogel 2D All 1-d files are columns of q (1/Angstrom), I (counts), Standard Deviation (counts) Aerogel 1D PET (Bad) 1D PE 1D LDPE Processing Data LDPE 2d SAXS and XRD of Blown LDPE Films
Lab XI Not Done this year	Computer Simulation Labs Simulation of Ising Model Simulation of Random Walks

Files: (Click to Down Load)
.zip file of Text Data for Computer Program
Free Mac Software that may be useful for Computer Program Project
(A free PC version called Scion Image for Windows, is available from Scion Corporation
Password Name="computer" password="yoyo".)

Course Requirements:

The focus of this course is analysis and characterization of polymers and plastics. Polymer Characterization is a lab course which is intended as a compliment to a lecture classes in the polymer curriculum such as Polymer Analysis.

Polymer Characterization involves

- a sequence of 9 labs which are performed by groups of 3 to 4 students

- a required computer program written individually

- a reverse engineering project based on a commercial product which is presented as a written report and as a class presentation by each group.

The grade for the class is an equally weighted sum of grades for each of the 9 reports, the 1 computer program, the group presentation and the group write-up for the reverse engineering project. That is, each component of the grade is weighted 1/12.

Students are expected to keep a lab notebook which will make up a portion of the individual grades for the lab reports.

Lab reports are due 6 days after completion of the lab. This means that the first lab done on January 6 is due at 5 pm on January 12 in 410 Rhodes at 5 pm. One lab will be due every week until 9 have been completed. Late reports will not be accepted and will be graded a 60 if you attended the lab and took the quiz.

The computer program is due at midterm (Friday February 4 at 5pm in 410 Rhodes) no late computer programs will be accepted.

The written report on the reverse engineering project is due the Monday of Finals Week but would be better to turn in at the oral presentation. No late reports will be accepted. The group presentations for the reverse engineering project will be given the last week of classes on Wednesday March 9 from 12 to 2 pm.

(Deliver All Reports to 410 Rhodes Lab or Directly to the TA)

Final letter grades will be based on class grade using the following scale:
A is between 90.0 and 100.0; B is between 80.0 and 89.9; C is between 70.0 and 79.9; D is between 60.0 and 69.9

Code	Lab 1	Lab 2	Lab 3	Lab 4	Lab 5	Lab 6	Lab 7	Lab 8	Lab 9	Program	R. E. Presentation	R. E. Report	Course Grade	Letter Grade
2	96	91	94	84	80	90	94	93	94	100	72.3	83	89.3	B
650	97	94	93	85	93	90	85	93	91	70	86.8	96	89.5	B
55	96	95	93	80	72	86	83	89	89	95	72.3	82	86.0	B
56	92	97	95	87	89	90	92	86	92	93	84.2	96	91.1	A
63	86	93	97	92	90	78	71	85	83	95	84.2	92	87.2	B
999	97	97	94	87	87	87	93	93	96	70	86.8	97	90.4	A
82	92	96	92	85	87	94	82	90	94	75	72.3	83	86.9	B
91	95	98	96	89	90	96	96	96	98	70	86.8	98	92.4	A
92	100	100	95	93	88	95	93	93	90	93	84.2	94	93.2	A
30	89	87	96	76	90	86	88	87	92	70	84.2	92	86.4	B
950	93	96	92	76	74	80	74	86	92	50	72.3	82	80.6	B
Mean	93.9	94.9	94.3	84.9	85.5	88.4	86.5	90.1	91.9	80.1	80.6	90.5	88.5

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Characterization Lab

Labs

Final letter grades will be based on class grade using the following scale: A is between 90.0 and 100.0; B is between 80.0 and 89.9; C is between 70.0 and 79.9; D is between 60.0 and 69.9

Final letter grades will be based on class grade using the following scale:
A is between 90.0 and 100.0; B is between 80.0 and 89.9; C is between 70.0 and 79.9; D is between 60.0 and 69.9