ABSTRACT
MOR are trademarks licensed to ERA Systems, Inc. (13) Ln or In is the natural logarithm. (14) 1 mg/ft2 is equivalent to 1.0764 |Lig/cm2 or 1 |ag/cm2 is equivalent to 0.929
mg/ft2.
1. INTRODUCTION
The principle of the MESERAN technique was discovered by one of us (JLA) in 1960. This analytical technique is used in a number of industrial and governmental facilities (within the United States and abroad) for research and development purposes as well as for quality and production control. The characterization of the surface being analyzed is carried out by depositing a chemical detector onto the test surface and observing the rate at which the chemical detector disappears from the surface. The MESERAN technique is routinely used for quantifying organic
contamination on surfaces and the crosslink density (or degree of cure) in polymers. In addition, the MESERAN technique can be used for quantifying chemically active sites on surfaces [1-3].
