Thermal analysis of Micro, Nano- and Non-Crystalline Materials

1. Some Fundamental and Historical Aspects of Phenomenological Kinetics in the Solid State Studied by Thermal Analysis
Nobuyoshi Koga, Jaroslav Šesták, Peter Šimon

2. Equilibrium Background of Processes Initiated by Heating and Ehrenfest’s Classification of Phase Transitions
Pavel Holba

3. Crystal Defects and Nonstoichiometry Contributions to Heat Capacity of Solids
Pavel Holba, David Sedmidubský

4. Forty Years of the Turnbull Reduced Glass Transition Temperature and Hrubý Glass-Forming Coefficient and Their Current Perception
Ana Kozmidis-Petrovic, Jaroslav Šesták

5. Heat Transfer and Phase Transition in DTA Experiments
Pavel Holba, Jaroslav Šesták, David Sedmidubský

6. Determination of the Glass Transition by DSC: A Comparison of Conventional and Dynamic Techniques
John M. Hutchinson

7. Structural Relaxation and Viscosity Behavior in Supercooled Liquids at the Glass Transition
Jiří Málek, Roman Svoboda

8. Kinetics of Structural Relaxation in Glasses
Emília Illeková

9. Kinetics of Crystal Nucleation in Closed Systems
Zdeněk Kožíšek, Pavel Demo, Alexey Sveshnikov

10. Influence of Preliminary Nucleation on the Physicogeometric Kinetics of Glass Crystallization
Nobuyoshi Koga, Jaroslav Šesták

11. Application of Isoconversional Methods for the Processes Occurring in Glassy and Amorphous Materials
Peter Šimon, Paul S. Thomas

12. Fractals in Solid-State Processes
Peter Šimon, Oldřich Zmeškal, Jaroslav Šesták

13. Crystallization of Metallic Micro-, Nano-, and Non-Crystalline Alloys
Emília Illeková, Jaroslav Šesták

14. Crystallization Kinetics in Amorphous and Glassy Materials
Jiří Málek, Jana Shánělová

15. Comments on DTA/DSC Methods for Estimation of Crystal Nucleation Rates in Glass-Forming Melts
Vladimir M. Fokin, Aluísio Alves Cabral, Raphael M. C. V. Reis, Edgar D. Zanotto

16. Nonparametric Kinetic Methods
Julià Sempere, Rosa Nomen, Eduard Serra, Bernat Sempere

17. Electron Transport Studies of Disorder and Dimensionality in Nano-Crystalline Diamond
Pavel Hubík, Jiří J. Mareš

18. Controlled Nucleation and Crystallization for Nanoparticle Synthesis
Isak Avramov, Christian Rüssel

19. Nucleation on Strongly Curved Surfaces of Nanofibers
Pavel Demo, Alexey Sveshnikov, Zdeněk Kožíšek

20. Thermal Analysis of Waste Glass Batches: Effect of Batch Makeup on Gas-Evolving Reactions
David A. Pierce, Pavel Hrma, José Marcial

21. Amorphous Inorganic Polysialates: Geopolymeric Composites and the Bioactivity of Hydroxyl Groups
Jaroslav Šesták, Nobuyoshi Koga, Peter Šimon, Bronislav Foller, Pavel Roubíček, Nae-Lih N. Wu

22. Oxide Superconductors as Model Systems for Studying Phase Relations, Stoichiometry, Reaction Kinetics, and Unconventional Glass Formability
Takayuki Komatsu, Jaroslav Šesták

Nyckelord: Materials Science, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods, Analytical Chemistry, Materials Science, general