Post 2

Alright, like We promised, this is DefMat second post on our job shadowing programme.

For the past 2 days, we have been learning about thermal properties of polymers and how we go about testing them.

The picture above is the equipment we use to carry out thermal gravimetric analysis with; it has temperature range to 1000 degree Celsius so you might want to keep your fingers away.

Under the careful guidance of our friends we are able to carry our various samples testing, in which we were given the opportunity to make our own samples to test.

 The testing process is an extremely process; however, it really takes a long time for completion and to get our results. (Ranging from 45mins to a few hours)

We also studied the cycle of the thermal decomposition process as well as the crystallization of the sample when subjected to high temperature heating.

Here is a picture of the equipment we used for testing of some weird graphs below.

It was all very interesting as we were also able to observe other processes which even involve liquid nitrogen.

Okay, so this is the end of our second post, we will be starting on our project tomorrow on… sorry its classified. Stay tunes for more updates, this is DefMat saying: Lights Out

(Here are some other pictures for you to see)