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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 this field. In particular, the book focuses on reaction thermodynamics and kinetics applied to solid-state chemistry and thermal physics of various states of materials.

Written by an international array of distinguished academics, the book deals with fundamental and historical aspects of phenomenological kinetics, equilibrium background of processes, crystal defects, non-stoichiometry and nano-crystallinity, reduced glass-transition temperatures and glass-forming coefficients, determination of the glass transition by DSC, the role of heat transfer and phase transition in DTA experiments, explanation of DTA/DSC methods used for the estimation of crystal nucleation, structural relaxation and viscosity behaviour in glass and associated relaxation kinetics, influence of preliminary nucleation and coupled phenomenological kinetics, nucleation on both the strongly curved surfaces and nano-particles, crystallization of glassy and amorphous materials including oxides, chalcogenides and metals, non-parametric and fractal description of kinetics, disorder and dimensionality in nano-crystalline diamond, thermal analysis of waste glass batches, amorphous inorganic polysialates and bioactivity of hydroxyl groups as well as reaction kinetics and unconventional glass formability of oxide superconductors.

Thermal Analysis of Micro-, Nano- and Non-Crystalline Materials: Transformation, Crystallization, Kinetics, and Thermodynamics is a valuable resource to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and researches working in the application fields of material thermodynamics, thermal analysis, thermophysical measurements, and calorimetry.

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Some Fundamental and Historical Aspects of Phenomenological Kinetics in the Solid-State Studied by Thermal Analysis ( Nobuyoshi Koga, Jaroslav Sesták and Peter Simon ).- Equilibrium background of processes iniciated by heating and Ehrenfest´s classification of phase transitions ( Pavel Holba ).- Crystal defects and nonstoichiometry contributions to heat capacity of solids ( P. Holba, D. Sedmidubskì ).- Forty years of the Turnbull reduced glass-transition temperature and Hrubì glass-forming coefficient and their current perception ( Ana Kozmidis-Petrovic, Jaroslav Sesták ).- Heat transfer and phase transition in DTA experiment ( P. Holba, J. Sesták, D. Sedmidubskì ).- Determination of the glass transition by DSC: a comparison of conventional and dynamic techniques ( John M. Hutchinson ).- Structural relaxation and viscosity behavior in supercooled liquids at the glass transition ( Jirí Málek, Roman Svoboda ).- Kinetics of structural relaxation in glasses ( Emília Illeková ).- Kinetics of crystal nucleation in closed systems ( Zdenek Kozísek , Pavel Demo, Alexey Sveshnikov ).- Influence of preliminary nucleation on the physico-geometrical kinetics of glass crystallization ( Nobuyoshi Koga and Jaroslav Sesták ).- Application of isoconversional methods for the processes occurring in glassy and amorphous materials ( Peter Simon, Paul S. Thomas ).-Fractals in solid state processes ( Peter Simon, Oldrich Zmeskal and Jaroslav Sesták ).- Crystallization of metallic micro-, nano- and non-crystalline alloys ( Emília Illeková, Jaroslav Sesták ).- Crystallization kinetics in amorphous materials studied by means of calorimetry, microscopy and dilatometry ( Jirí Málek, Jana Shánelová ).- Comments on DTA/DSC methods for estimation of crystal nucleation rates in glass-forming melts ( Vladimir M. Fokin, Aluísio A. Cabral, Raphael M.C.V. Reis and Edgar D. Zanotto ).- Non-parametric kinetic methods ( J. Sempere, R. Nomen, E. Serra, and B. Sempere ).- Electron transport studies of disorder and dimensionality in nanocrystalline diamond ( Pavel Hubík and Jirí J. Mares ).- Controlled Nucleation and Crystallization for Nanoparticle Synthesis ( Isak Avramov, Christian Rüssel ).- Nucleation on strongly curved surfaces of nanofibers ( Pavel Demo, Alexey Sveshnikov, and Zdenek Kozísek ).- Thermal analysis of waste glass batches: effect of batch makeup on gas-evolving reactions ( David A. Pierce, Pavel Hrma, José Marcial ).- Amorphous inorganic polysialates - geopolymeric composites and the bioactivity of hydroxyl groups ( J. Sesták, N. Koga, P. Simon, B. Foller, P. Roubícek, N-L. Wu ).- Oxide superconductors as model systems for studying phase relations, stoichiometry, reaction kinetics and unconventional glass formability ( T. Komatsu, J. Sesták ).

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