Sensing Water Absorption in Hygrothermally Aged Epoxies with Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy

Anal Chem. 2021 Feb 2;93(4):2449-2455. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04453. Epub 2021 Jan 5.

Abstract

In the field of non-destructive testing, terahertz sensing has been used to analyze a wide range of materials where the most successful applications have involved materials that are semi-transparent to terahertz radiation. In this work, we demonstrate the sensitivity of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy to quantify water absorption in hygrothermally aged simple and commercial epoxy systems supported by conventional gravimetric analysis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't