Thermal analysis of Micro, Nano- and Non-Crystalline Materials Transformation, Crystallization, Kinetics and Thermodynamics

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.