There are more sophisticated techniques to determine the extent of cure but these do require the use of specialised (and expensive) equipment. DSC is a thermo-analytical technique [2] in which the difference in the amount of heat required to increase the temperature of the sample of suspect uncured adhesive and a fully cured reference are measured as a function of temperature. Both the sample and reference are maintained at the same temperature throughout the experiment and DSC will detect any energy changes or heat capacity changes with great sensitivity and thus determine whether the test sample has fully cured.
‘No Cure’ — Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
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