Thermal analysis of Micro, Nano- and Non-Crystalline Materials : Transformation, Crystallization, Kinetics and Thermodynamics - Šesták, Jaroslav; Simon, Peter; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Some Fundamental and Historical Aspects of Phenomenological Kinetics in the Solid-State Studied by Thermal Analysis -- Equilibrium background of processes iniciated by heating and Ehrenfest's classification of phase transitions -- Crystal defects and nonstoichiometry contributions to heat capacity of solids -- Forty years of the Turnbull reduced glass-transition temperature and Hrubý glass-forming coefficient and their current perception -- Heat transfer and phase transition in DTA experiment -- Determination of the glass transition by DSC: a comparison of conventional and dynamic techniques -- Structural relaxation and viscosity behavior in supercooled liquids at the glass transition -- Kinetics of structural relaxation in glasses -- Kinetics of crystal nucleation in closed systems -- Influence of preliminary nucleation on the physico-geometrical kinetics of glass crystallization -- Application of isoconversional methods for the processes occurring in glassy and amorphous materials. Fractals in solid state processes -- Crystallization of metallic micro-, nano- and non-crystalline alloys -- Crystallization kinetics in amorphous materials studied by means of calorimetry, microscopy and dilatometry -- Comments on DTA/DSC methods for estimation of crystal nucleation rates in glass-forming melts -- Non-parametric kinetic methods -- Electron transport studies of disorder and dimensionality in nanocrystalline diamond -- Controlled Nucleation and Crystallization for Nanoparticle Synthesis -- Nucleation on strongly curved surfaces of nanofibers -- Thermal analysis of waste glass batches: effect of batch makeup on gas-evolving reactions -- Amorphous inorganic polysialates - geopolymeric composites and the bioactivity of hydroxyl groups -- Oxide superconductors as model systems for studying phase relations, stoichiometry, reaction kinetics and unconventional glass formability.
Keywords: Ceramics; Glass; Composites (Materials).; Composite materials; Analytical chemistry; Materials science; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials; Analytical Chemistry; Materials Science, general