Handbook of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry: Recent Advances, Techniques and Applications, Volume Six, Second Edition, presents the latest in a series that has been well received by the thermal analysis and calorimetry community. This volume covers recent advances in techniques and applications that complement the earlier volumes. There has been tremendous progress in the field in recent years, and this book puts together the most high-impact topics selected for their popularity by new editors Sergey Vyazovkin, Nobuyoshi Koga and Christoph Schick-all editors of Thermochimica Acta.
Among the important new techniques covered are biomass conversion; sustainable polymers; polymer nanocompsoties; nonmetallic glasses; phase change materials; propellants and explosives; applications to pharmaceuticals; processes in ceramics, metals, and alloys; ionic liquids; fast-scanning calorimetry, and more.
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Table of Contents
ForewordSergey Vyazovkin, Nobuyoshi Koga, and Christoph Schick
1. Decomposition of organic wastes: Thermal analysis and evolution of volatiles
Rafael Font
2. Thermal analysis of biobased polymers and composites
Nathanaël Guigo and Nicolas Sbirrazzuoli
3. Polymer Nanocomposites
Krzysztof Pielichowski and Kinga Pielichowska
4. Thermal behavior of chalcogenide glasses
Roman Svoboda and Jirí Málek
5. Applications of Thermal Analysis to the Study of Phase Change Materials
R. Parameshwaran, A. Sari, N. Jalaiah, and R. Karunakaran
6. Characteristics of Thermal Decomposition of Energetic Materials in the Study of Their Initiation Reactivity
Svatopluk Zeman
7. Analysis of Polymer Crystallization by Calorimetry
Maria Laura Di Lorenzo, René Androsch, Alicyn Marie Rhoades, and Maria Cristina Righetti
8. Modern isoconversional kinetics: From misconceptions to advances
Sergey Vyazovkin
9. Pharmaceutical applications of thermal analysis
Kohsaku Kawakami
10. Thermoanalytical characterization techniques for multiferroic materials
Eva Gil-González, Antonio Perejón, Pedro E. Sánchez-Jiménez, José M. Criado, and Luis A. Pérez-Maqueda
11. Kinetics and mechanisms of solid-gas reactions
Michèle Pijolat and Loïc Favergeon
12. Physico-geometric approach to the kinetics of overlapping solid-state reactions
Nobuyoshi Koga
13. Glass transition and physical aging of confined polymers investigated by calorimetric techniques
Daniele Cangialosi
14. Chalcogenides for phase-change memory
Jiri Orava and A. Lindsay Greer
15. Development of direct and indirect methods for determination of vaporization enthalpies of extremely low volatile compounds
Sergey P. Verevkin, Dzmitry H. Zaitsau, Christoph Schick, and Florian Heym
16. Aluminum alloys
Benjamin Milkereit, Olaf Kessler, and Christoph Schick
17. Metals and alloys
John Perepezko
18. Fast scanning chip calorimetry
Christoph Schick and Renè Androsch
19. Dilatometry
Martin Hunkel, Holger surm, and Matthias Steinbacher
