20.01.2025 by Aileen Sammler

How the Queensland University of Technology uses NETZSCH Instruments to Solve Thermoelectric and Building Materials Applications

This customer success story by the Central Analytical Research Facility (CARF) at Queensland University of Technology, Australia presents two case studies.

The first one focuses on improving the stability and performance of flexible composite electrothermal heaters for electric vehicles. Here, different types of SIS/SEPS copolymers and their composites with Carbon BlackTemperature and atmosphere (purge gas) affect the mass change results. By changing the atmosphere from, e.g., nitrogen to air during the TGA measurement, separation and quantification of additives, e.g., carbon black, and the bulk polymer can become possible.carbon black were characterized by determining their Thermal StabilityA material is thermally stable if it does not decompose under the influence of temperature. One way to determine the thermal stability of a substance is to use a TGA (thermogravimetric analyzer). thermal stability, electrothermal performance and thermal resistance.

Case two deals with the effects of vermiculite on fired clay bricks: While the expanded form of vermiculite has been well-studied, natural vermiculite is often overlooked as an additive to bricks due to the perception that its expansion when heated reduces brick strength. But is this perception accurate? NETZSCH analysis instruments will answer that question!

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