Fast Scanning Calorimetry

Part I. Advanced Instrumentation, Techniques and Methods

1. Material Characterization by Fast Scanning Calorimetry: Practice and Applications
Jürgen E. K. Schawe, Stefan Pogatscher

2. Non-Adiabatic Scanning Calorimeter for Controlled Fast Cooling and Heating
Evgeny Zhuravlev, Christoph Schick

3. Quasi-adiabatic, Membrane-Based, Highly Sensitive Fast Scanning Nanocalorimetry
J. Rodríguez-Viejo, A. F. Lopeandía

4. Fast Scanning Calorimetry–Fast Thermal Desorption Technique: The Thin Wire Approach
Deepanjan Bhattacharya, Ulyana Cubeta, Vladislav Sadtchenko

5. Fast Scanning Calorimetry of Silk Fibroin Protein: Sample Mass and Specific Heat Capacity Determination
Peggy Cebe, Benjamin P. Partlow, David L. Kaplan, Andreas Wurm, Evgeny Zhuravlev, Christoph Schick

6. Scanning AC Nanocalorimetry and Its Applications
Kechao Xiao, Joost J. Vlassak

7. Isoconversional Kinetics by Fast Scanning Calorimetry
Nicolas Sbirrazzuoli, Nathanael Guigo, Sergey Vyazovkin

8. Reliable Absolute Vapor Pressures of Extremely Low Volatile Compounds from Fast Scanning Calorimetry
Mathias Ahrenberg, Alexandr Ostonen, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer, Martin Beck, Christin Schmidt, Olaf Keßler, Udo Kragl, Sergey P. Verevkin, Christoph Schick

Part II. Combination with Analytical Techniques and Molecular Simulations

9. Design of an In Situ Setup Combining Nanocalorimetry and Nano- or Micro-focus X-Ray Scattering to Address Fast Structure Formation Processes
M. Rosenthal, A. P. Melnikov, A. A. Rychkov, D. Doblas, D. V. Anokhin, M. Burghammer, D. A. Ivanov

10. Combining Fast Scanning Chip Calorimetry with Structural and Morphological Characterization Techniques
Dorien Baeten, Dario Cavallo, Giuseppe Portale, René Androsch, Vincent Mathot, Bart Goderis

11. Integration of Fast Scanning Calorimetry (FSC) with Microstructural Analysis Techniques
Jing Jiang, Lai Wei, Dongshan Zhou

12. Combining Fast-Scan Chip Calorimetry with Molecular Simulations to Investigate Polymer Crystal Melting
Xiaoming Jiang, Zhaolei Li, Huanhuan Gao, Wenbing Hu

Part III. Dynamics of (de)Vitrification

13. Cooling Rate Dependent Glass Transition in Thin Polymer Films and in Bulk
Daniele Cangialosi, Angel Alegría, Juan Colmenero

14. The Glass Transition and Structural Recovery Using Flash DSC
Sindee L. Simon, Yung P. Koh

Part IV. Metastability and Reorganization in Relation to Crystallization and Melting

15. New Insights into Polymer Crystallization by Fast Scanning Chip Calorimetry
Christoph Schick, René Androsch

16. Mesophase Formation in Isotactic Polypropylene Copolymers
Ernesto Pérez, Alberto García-Peñas, Javier Arranz-Andrés, José M. Gómez-Elvira, María L. Cerrada

17. Industrial Applications of Fast Scanning DSC: New Opportunities for Studying Polyolefin Crystallization
Daniel Istrate, Ralf Kleppinger, Klaas Remerie

18. Full-Temperature-Range Crystallization Rates of Polyamides by Fast Scanning Calorimetry as Key to Processing
Geert Vanden Poel, Daniel Istrate, Vincent Mathot

19. Kinetic Studies of Melting, Crystallization, and Glass Formation
John H. Perepezko, Jun-Qiang Wang

20. Nucleation Kinetics Analyses of Deeply Undercooled Metallic Liquids by Fast Scanning Calorimetry
Christian Simon, Yikun Zhang, Gerhard Wilde

21. Fast Scanning Calorimetry of Phase Transitions in Metals
Yulai Gao, Bingge Zhao, Bin Yang, Christoph Schick

22. Precipitation and Dissolution Kinetics in Metallic Alloys with Focus on Aluminium Alloys by Calorimetry in a Wide Scanning Rate Range
Benjamin Milkereit, Olaf Kessler, Christoph Schick

23. Martensitic Transformation of NiMnGa Shape Memory Alloys Thin Films Studied by Flash DSC
J. M. Barandiaran, I. R. Aseguinolaza, A. Mota-Cobián, V. A. Chernenko

Keywords: Materials Science, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Polymer Sciences, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering