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Igor Pro version 6.3

Polymer Analysis and Characterization
20 MTEN 7032C
Semester: Spring, 2014-15
LEVEL: Dual (Required Graduate; Undergraduate Elective)

Monday 11-2 Wednesday 10-1

Occasionally other times

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 failure analysis
Background in x-ray diffraction.
Some understanding of the morphology of polymers.
The ability to write a simple computer program.

Prof. Gregory Beaucage
beaucag@uc.edu
556-3063/-5152(Lab)/-9305(Lab)
492 Rhodes/551 ERC and 410 Rhodes (Labs)

Teaching Assistant:
Shengdong Xiao xiaosg@mail.uc.edu .

Group
First	Last	Lab Group	Day	Time	Reverse Engineering Topic
		A	Wednesday		Unknown

SCHEDULE

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

Finals Week

Aug. 26

Sept. 2

Sept. 9

Sept. 16

Sept. 23

Sept. 30

Oct. 7

Oct. 21

Lecture

Tues Thursday Baldwin 648

Lab 6

Lab 13

Ayers Lab Rievschl 704

Lab 14

Computer ProgramERC 435 (Nov 28) ERC 405 (Nov 30)

12 to 2 pm ERC 435

Lab Notebook,

Report Format,

Error Analysis,

Significant Figures,

Reverse Engineering
Project

Overview of
Polymer Analysis

Notes on Lab Reports 2013
Notes Lab 1A
Notes Lab 1B
Notes Lab 2
Notes Lab 3

Notes Viscometer Lab 1 2014 Spring

Reverse
Engineering
Project
Presentations

Rhodes
505
Char.
Center

Computer
Program
Due Friday at
5 PM in
Rhodes 410

Crosley Tower First Floor

Rievschl 704 Ayres Lab

ERC 435 (Nov 28) ERC 405 (Nov 30)

Reverse Engineering Group Report

Presentation 12-2
ERC 435

15 students are registered for Polymer Characterization. The class will be divided into 3 groups of 5 students. Groups will meet on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday at 2:30 (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. 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. 21	Melt Viscosity Quiz (Complete prior to lab)	Background.html Polymer Melt Rheology/Viscometric Flow.html Melt Viscosity Option A (OLD).html Temperature Dependence of Viscosity (Wiki) Text for Lab: (Change first "Middleman" in link to "Mm") Middleman Chapter 5: Viscometric Flows Middleman Chapter 3: Introduction to Polymer Flow Viscometer Manual (Buchanan) Toledo Lecture Notes on Viscosity Vainessa Ng Plots for PDMS Activation Energy Arrhenius PDMS 14.9 kJ/mole Rolling ball and other types of viscometers from Anton Paar	2018 Data Group A 2016; Group B Group A 201 4; Group B 2014; Group C 2014; Concentration Data; Viscosity vs MW Plot Group A 201 3; Group B 2013 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. 28	Tensile / Impact Quiz (Complete prior to lab)	Polymer Stress Strain Notes Morphology of Polymer Deformation Mechanics of Materials Ins tron 4465 Manual Instron 4400 Manual (1 of 2) Instron 4400 Manual (2 of 2) Roland NRL Viscoelastic Behavior of Rubbery Materials (Mooney Rivin and Gent Equation) Paper on MR plot Jim Mark Polymer Encylopedia MR Plot Herve Marand Rubber Elasticity Talk Typical Values of Young's Modulus for PS, PE, PP, Rubber Chi and Rubber Elasticity Polyurethane Rubber	Instron Data 2018 Swollen Rubber Instron Data 2016 Swollen Rubber Instron Data Group B/A 2014; Group C/A 2014 Zip of Instron Data 201 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 Feb. 4 (704 Rieveschl Hall)	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 GPC With Light Scattering Training Manual (79 Mb) Watt Hardware and Software Manual and Intro Slide Bridge Viscometer Paper Callibration of Retention Time with M.W. Comment by Benoit	Data 2015 ; Multimodal PMMA on DMF GPC Data 2015; Multimodal Sample 2015 Group A 2014: PolyLactose .txt; .afe6; .xml; .docx; .jpg1; .jpg2; .jpg3; .jpg4; .csv (excel) Group B 2014: PolyUrethane .pdf; .afe6; .xml; .csv (excel); .jpg1 Group C 2014: Polystyrene .afe6; .xml; .docx; .csv (excel) Pictures of Lab: .jpg5; .jpg6; .jpg7; .jpg8; .jpg9 The instrument gives an error for some values. You need to explain the origin of these values and your reason to use them. "Taylor, Leeanne (tayloln)" <tayloln@mail.uc.edu> GPC Data Group A 2013 GPC Data Group B 2013 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 4 Feb. 11	Spectroscopy.html Quiz (Complete prior to lab)	Raman of different carbon samples A Raman of different carbon samples B Raman CNT two wavelengths Polybutadiene 1949 Paper Morero Method Typical Data EM Radiation.html IR.html FTIR.pdf FTIR Tutorial and quiz Raman Tutorial Raman Tutorial B Raman Review.html Polybutadiene IR/Raman.pdf Nylon IR/Raman.pdf Nylon IR/Raman.jpg IR Absorption Frequencies ATR Lecture Sample Prep for FTIR MIRacle PDS 2013 Raman Spectrum of Graphene	2019 Data.zip 2018 Data.zip 2015 Data.zip 2014 Group A IR; Group A Raman 2014 Group B IR; Group C IR; Group B Raman Pictures: 23.jpg; 24.jpg; 25.jpg; 26.jpg; 27.jpg 2013 Group A IR; Group A Ra man 2013 Group B IR; Group B Raman 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
Lab 5 Feb. 18	DSC/DTA/TGA Quiz (Complete prior to lab)	Thermal Analysis.html Semicrystalline Morphology.html DSC Southern Misissippi Modulated DSC TA Instruments.pdf Modulated DSC Summary.pdf PET Crystallization Paper.pdf, HoffmanWeeksNumbersFromPaper PET DSC.pdf Artifacts in DSC.pdf TA DSC and PET Modulated DSC.pdf TA Modulated DSC and PET.pdf TGA for Tires TGA A.pdf , TGA B.pdf TGA for BioCharTalk; Paper on Bamboo TGA	2016 Data 2015 Data 2014 Data Group A; Group B; Group AB; Group C and Combined Plots Group A 2013 Group B 2013 File 1 File 2, File 3 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 6 Feb. 25	XRD.html Quiz (Complete prior to lab)	d-spacing to a,b,c,alpha,beta,gamma Common Polymer XRD Peaks Polymer XRD.html X-ray Diffraction Class (Undergraduate/Cullity) 2 Theta Positions for Polymers Taiwan PPT.pdf PC in Solvent Crystallization Kinetics.pdf PC Crystallization Dissertation VPI had sigma e and DH for Hoffman Lauritzen/Gibbs Thompson Equation How to Calculate DOC.html	XRD Data 2018 XRD Data 2016 Monday, Wednesday XRD Data 2014 asc = txt; XRD Data Spring 2014 Radial Average Data for Hermans Orientation Function Calculation.xls XRD Data 2013.zip 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 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 March 4 (Computer Program Due Friday 5 pm)	SAXS Lab.html Quiz SAXS (Complete Prior to Lab) (Computer Program Project Due this Week Friday at 5 pm)	Ilavsky SAXS software for Igor Pro (Irena) Semi-crystalline Polymer Morphology XRD of Semi-Crystalline Polymers SAXS Notes Beaucage Review Article SAXS/SANS Old Small-Angle Scattering of X-rays.html -SAXS OklU	RAR Expander Program for Mac SAXS Data 2009.rar SAXS Data 2006 2004 Data 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 8 March 11	NMR Lab (NMR Quiz)	EM Radiation.html NMR.html Preparation of NMR samples Spincore Software Downloads Tacticity Determination of PMMA.pdf Tacticity of PMMA Talk.pdf 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.) Spinworks PC program for NMR How to run spin works video NMR of PHB	NMR Data 2015 Program from Chemistry for NMR NMR Data.rar (need to download rar expander for the Mac people) Please contact Lucas (Yuan Zhao) <lucas.zhy@gmail.com> if there is confusion about the samples. To open the NMR data you need to download the MestReC Program which takes some time and several e-mails. When you finally have it loaded you should open the "1r" files to see the data. This should be in ppm on the x-axis. Group A 2013; Group B 2013 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 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 9 Mar. 25	Optical Microscopy Lab.html (Quiz Microscopy) (OLD Lab NOT DONE: Microscopy.html)	Morphology of Complex Materials EM Radiation (Analysis).html Morphology Class.html Semicrystalline Morphology.html Deformation Morphology.html Phase Morphology.html	Data 2019 Data 2014.zip Data 2014.zip Group A 2013.rar Group B 2012.zip (no videos) 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 10 November 7	DLS Lab.html DLS Quiz.doc	Prof. Schaefer DLS and DMA Igor Procedures 1) Find the Universal Installer for Igor 6 at the bottom of the page and download it. Check the box "download file by file" Check the box load "download using ftp not http Push the button "Check Packages Versiona" Push the button "Install/Update All" 2) Put the Schaefer Macros in the appropriate folders (Place in Igor Procedure and User Procedure folders in Igor Pro Folder) 3) Under Macros, First: "Load UC Macros", 4) Then: Macros: Other Macros: "AVL Light Scattering" 5) Then under: Plot Fits: "ALV DLS Panel" 6) Click Load 7) Then you can plot, fit etc. You need to set the viscosity yourself Schaefer code does not load the error for the correlation function, or the raw data I versus time. You need I versus time to get the average static intensity for I vs q plot. This can be obtained by opening the file as a notebook in Igor, finding the two columns of time and intensity, copy and paste into a table then do "wavestats" on the intensity wave to get average and standard deviation. Igor Program where I have read in some DLS data. You can copy from the history section to read in other data. Some Russo data in Igor ALV/CGS3 DLS Instrument, pdf of manual Viscosity of water, Boltzman Constant 1.38064852 × 10-23 m2 kg s-2 K-1 Paul Russo's LSU (Now Georgia Tech) DLS Lab.pdf Old Russo Lab Paul Russo's LSU Lab Course Russo Final Exam (difficult) Example Data Set for Exam Russo Insights on Guinier's Law Dynamic Light Scattering HiemenzRajagopalan DLS Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) Mason, Gang, Weitz 1997 1993 paper ZimmPlot.png Strobl Zimm Equation.pdf ZimmPlot IAS Kirkwood 1954 RH calculation David Boas Dissertation	Group B 2014 Milk, Almond Milk, Cream, SELS/NaCl in Water Group C 2014 Same Samples at 34 and 45°C also High Concentration SELS/NaCl in Water 21% and Graphene Solution in Water from Kuppa Russo Data Set mixed Spheres (Exam) Russo Data Set Milk Russo Data Set Polymer in Solution
Lab 11 November 7	DMTA Lab DMTA Quiz	Prof. Schaefer DLS and DMA Igor Procedures 1)Find the Universal Installer for Igor 6 at the bottom of the page and download it. 2) Put the Schaefer Macros in the appropriate folders (Place in Igor Procedure and User Procedure folders in Igor Pro Folder) 3) Under Macros, First: "Load UC Macros", 4) Then: Macros: Other Macros: "DMA" 5) Figure out how to use his macros for DMA. Polymer Dynamics Course DMA 861 Examples.pdf Mettler Toledo DMA 861 Video DMA 861 Manual.pdf Star Software Manual.pdf DMA Instrument Comparison DMA TA Instruments.pdf WLF.pdf Lab on DMA from Iowa State.pdf TA slides.pdf More DMA.pdf Fukushima.pdf Hess.pdf VT dissertation chapter.pdf Cole-Cole Plot and Debye Relaxation.ppt	DMA Data 2014 Unknown (3 point bend), PET (tensile), and Ketchup Bottle(tensile) Use 2013 data if necessary Group A 2013 Data; Group B 2013 Data
Lab 12 November 14	AFM/ESEM Lab (Quiz AFM/ESEM) (Old Lab SEM Lab.html)	Needle Throwing.pdf ImageJ Plugin for Correlation Function AFM Image processing from ETH Igor Pro Procedures for AFM/SPM: Web Site Source Folders to Put in Igor Pro Data:Load Waves:Load NanoScope Image There are other procedures you can get by File:Open File: Procedure go to folder you just put in AFM/SPM Software List for Download from Mel NIH Image AFM Sites Navy UGuelph Canada Bristol, UK Hobbs Site AFM Polymers.pdf Polymer AFM Bruker.html BCP AFM.pdf AFM How it works NKU.pdf SEM Sites SEM Wikipedia SEM Video 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	2014 Group A (Various Paper) AFM Group B Group C 2013 Group A P hotographs and Micrographs 2013 Group B Photographs and Micrographs TEM Images of pressed polypropylene from Ayush Bafna Micrographs from the SEM Lab (Zipped File)
Lab 13 November 21	Oscillatory Rheometry Lab (Quiz Torque Rheometer)	Faith Morrison Lab Notes Lecture 4 2013 Faith Morrison Video of Classes on Rheology (goes with her book) Discovery HR Hybrid Rheometer (Ayres Lab) video Operating Procedure Polymer Dynamics Class Flow Rheology of Gels Dynamic Viscoelasticity (NIST) Larson Polymers (add f to end for pdf) Larson Gels (add f to end for pdf) Larson Particulate Gels (add f to end for pdf) Polystyrene WLF Paper	Thermal Analysis Data 2016 Software to read .tri files (Requires windows/779Mb) Click "TRIOS for Rheology"
Lab 14 Nov 28	Computer Simulation Lab A) Simulation of Chain Distribution in Branched Polyethylene B) Simulation of Ising Model	Most Probable Distribution Dealy & Larson (2006), Soares & Hamielec (1996), Costeux, Wood-Adams & Beigzadeh (2002), and Costeux (2003) Read and McLeish (2001) Ramachandran (2005) Beigzadeh, Soares & Duever (1999) Description of Ising Model
Lab xx April xx	X-ray Reflectivity Lab.html Quiz Reflectivity (Complete Prior to Lab)	Reflectivity Tom Russell.pdf UC Schaefer Notes 2013.pptx Northeastern Univ. Power Point.pdf Colorado State Power Point.pdf Roger Pynn IU.pdf Reflectivity SOP How to Run Reflectometer.pdf Reflectivity Paper Reflectivity Paper 2 Data Fitting Procedure for Igor (Irena) Example Igor Exper iment with one d ata set.pxp (you need to load Irena before you look a this experiment) Vapor Swelling 1.pdf Vapor Swelling 2.pdf	Data 2013 Group A Data; Igor Experiment with Data.pxp 2013 Group B data; Igor Experiment with Data.pxp
Lab xx April xx "out of time"	Impedance Spectroscopy
Lab 12 Monday December 2 10-1 pm Rhodes 410	Spinodal Decomposition Lab.pdf Quiz Spinodal Decomposition (Complete Prior to Lab)	Notes on Polymer Blends A and Spinodal Decomposition Notes on Polymer Blends B Movie of Spinodal Decompostion Notes on Blends and Spinodal R.A. Jones Sheffield UK Plots of Flory Huggins Equation: ----------N = 1 Variable Chi from 0 to 4 ----------N = 1 Chi = 2.5 ----------Chi = 2.5 Variable N ----------Chi = 0 Variable N ----------Combinatorial PVME Phase Separation NIST Hashimoto Spinodal Paper Beaucage Spinodal Paper Beaucage Cloud Point Paper
Finals Week Monday December 5 12-2 pm ERC 435	Reverse Engineering Presentation and Report Reverse Engineering Group Report Due Friday April 18 5 pm

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Free Mac Software that may be useful for Computer Program Project
(A free PC version called Scion Image for Window, 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 13 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 13 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 1/16.

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 Wednesday January 21 is due at 5 pm on Monday January 26 in 410 Rhodes at 5 pm. One lab will be due every week until 12 have been completed. Late reports will not be accepted.

The computer program is due at midterm (Friday March 6 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. No late reports will be accepted. The group presentations for the reverse engineering project will be given during Finals Week.

(Deliver All Reports to 410 Rhodes Lab or Directly to Beaucage)

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.

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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.

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.