
The TGA can work on a large range of temperature: from sub ambient to 1000 °C. This ensure the detection of phenomena even when occurring at room temperature. Scanning rates can be set from 0.1 °C/min to 50 °C/min, according to the needs of the experiment. The microbalance has a sensitivity of 0.1 µg and a precision of ±0.001%. Samples up to 1300 mg can be analyzed with the TGA and the 20 positions autosampler ensures a large capacity for the analyses. Moreover, the AccuPik accessory allows the delayed analysis of efflorescent solvates. There is a data transmission link to our FTIR Spectrum 400 infrared spectrophotometer to provide the TG-IR analysis simultaneously. TG/FTIR is capable of detailed FTIR analysis of evolved gases produced from the TGA. The time based analysis with the emission intensity profiles on the various gases, the false colour maps, the stack plots and the 3D graph could be plotted.