Thermal analysis of micro, nano- and non-crystalline materials transformation, crystallization, kinetics and thermodynamics /

Thermal Analysis of Micro-, Nano- and Non-Crystalline Materials: Transformation, Crystallization, Kinetics and Thermodynamics complements and adds to volume 8 Glassy, Amorphous and Nano-Crystalline Materials by providing a coherent and authoritative overview of cutting-edge themes in the field of cr...

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Other Authors: Šesták, Jaroslav, 1938-, Šimon, Peter, 1952-, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2013]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 484 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Hot topics in thermal analysis and calorimetry ; v. 9.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.