Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)

Discovery 250 DSC instrument (TA Instruments)

Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) measures endothermic and exothermic processes and is widely used to characterize a broad range of materials including polymers, pharmaceuticals, foods, biologicals, organic chemicals, and inorganic materials. It can analyze endothermic events such as glass transition, melting, evaporation/volatilization, enthalpic recovery, polymorphic transitions, and some decompositions, and exothermic events such as crystallization, cure Reactions, polymorphic transitions oxidation, decomposition, and freezing.

Discovery 250 DSC instrument (TA Instruments) equipped with refrigerated Cooling Systems (RCS) with two stage refrigeration systems that achieve temperature ranges down to -90 °C.

Instrument specifications

Baseline Flatness (-50 to 300 °C) ≤10 µW
Baseline Repeatability (-50 to 300 °C) ≤20 µW
Temperature Range -90 °C to 550 °C
Temperature Accuracy ±0.05 °C
Temperature Precision ±0.008 °C
Enthalpy Precision ±0.08%

Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)