Thermal Physics and Thermal Analysis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Local Thermal Analysis by Structural Characterization (TASC)

   • Mike Reading, Sheng Qi, Muqdad Alhijjaj

   Pages 1-10

3. Sample Controlled Thermal Analysis (SCTA) as a Promising Tool for Kinetic Characterization of Solid-State Reaction and Controlled Material Synthesis

   • Jose M. Criado, Luis A. Pérez-Maqueda, Nobuyoshi Koga

   Pages 11-43

4. What Is the Physical and Operational Meaning of Temperature and Its Self-Measurability During Unsteady Thermal Processes Within Thermodynamic Concepts?

   • Miroslav Holeček, Jiří J. Mareš, Jaroslav Šesták, Pavel Hubík

   Pages 45-77

5. What Is Entropy—A Generalized Outlook and Application to Living Systems

   • F. Maršík, P. Novotný, M. Tomáš

   Pages 79-108

6. Kinetic Phase Diagrams as an Enforced Consequence of Rapid Changing Temperature or Diminishing Particle Size: Thermodynamic Fundamentals and Limits

   • Jaroslav Šesták

   Pages 109-130

7. Self-organized Periodic Processes: From Macro-layers to Micro-world of Diffusion and Down to the Quantum Aspects of Light

   • Jaroslav Šesták, Pavel Hubík, Jiří J. Mareš, Jiří Stávek

   Pages 131-157

8. Clapeyron and Ehrenfest Equations and Hyper-free Energy for Partly Open Systems

   • Pavel Holba, David Sedmidubský

   Pages 159-175

9. Nonstoichiometric Phases—Composition, Properties and Phase Transitions

   • David Sedmidubský, Pavel Holba

   Pages 177-194

10. How Do Crystals Nucleate and Grow: Ostwald’s Rule of Stages and Beyond

    • Jürn W. P. Schmelzer, Alexander S. Abyzov

    Pages 195-211

11. Imperfections of Kissinger Evaluation Method and the Explanation of Crystallization Kinetics of Glasses and Melts

    • Jaroslav Šesták, Pavel Holba

    Pages 213-236

12. Thermo-kinetic Phenomena Occurring in Glasses: Their Formalism and Mutual Relationships

    • Roman Svoboda, Jiří Málek, Jaroslav Šesták

    Pages 237-256

13. Parameterization and Validation of Thermochemical Models of Glass by Advanced Statistical Analysis of Spectral Data

    • Jan Macháček, Mária Chromčíková, Marek Liška

    Pages 257-278

14. Equivalence of the Arrhenius and Non-Arrhenian Temperature Functions in the Temperature Range of Measurement and Its Application in Isoconversional Kinetics

    • Peter Šimon, Tibor Dubaj, Zuzana Cibulková

    Pages 279-293

15. Rationale and Myth of Thermoanalytical Kinetic Patterns: How to Model Reaction Mechanisms by the Euclidean and Fractal Geometry and by Logistic Approach

    • Jaroslav Šesták, Isak Avramov

    Pages 295-318

16. The Role of Heat Transfer and Analysis Ensuing Heat Inertia in Thermal Measurements and Its Impact to Nonisothermal Kinetics

    • Pavel Holba, Jaroslav Šesták

    Pages 319-344

17. Thermal Gradients in Thermal Analysis Experiments

    • Jordi Farjas, Daniel Sánchez-Rodriguez, Hichem Eloussifi, Pere Roura

    Pages 345-362

18. The Physical Kinetics of Reversible Thermal Decomposition

    • J. Czarnecki, J. Šesták

    Pages 363-384

19. Thermodynamic Equilibria in Systems with Nanoparticles

    • Jindřich Leitner, David Sedmidubský

    Pages 385-402

20. Physico-chemical Analysis of Ceramic Material Systems: From Macro- to Nanostate

    • Vladimir Ya. Shevchenko

    Pages 403-423

Features twenty-five chapter contributions from an international array of distinguished academics based in Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, and the USA. This multi-author contributed volume provides an up-to-date and authoritative overview of cutting-edge themes involving the thermal analysis, applied solid-state physics, micro- and nano-crystallinity of selected solids and their macro- and microscopic thermal properties. Distinctive chapters featured in the book include, among others, calorimetry time scales from days to microseconds, glass transition phenomena, kinetics of non-isothermal processes, thermal inertia and temperature gradients, thermodynamics of nanomaterials, self-organization, significance of temperature and entropy. Advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working in the field of thermal analysis, thermophysical measurements and calorimetry will find this contributed volume invaluable. This is the third volume of the triptych volumes on thermal behaviour of materials; the previous two receiving thousand of downloads guaranteeing their worldwide impact.

• Chemical thermodynamics
• Glassy Amorphous Materials
• Glassy materials thermal
• Non-Crystalline Materials thermal
• Thermal analysis
• Thermal physics
• Thermal technique
• Thermokinetics

• New Technologies (NTC-ZČU) Research Centre of the Westbohemian Region, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic

  Jaroslav Šesták

• Division of Solid-State Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Praha , Czech Republic

  Pavel Hubík

• Division of Solid-State Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Praha, Czech Republic

  Jiří J. Mareš

Prof. Jaroslav Šesták, MEng., PhD., DSc.

Prof. Jaroslav Šesták, M.Eng., Ph.D., D.Sc., Dr.h.c. (*1938) Team leader of New Technology - Research Centre in Westbohemian Region, West Bohemian University in Pilsen. Emeritus Scientist of the Academy of Sciences. Institute of Physics in Prague, Czech Republic. Past chair of the Czech Working Group on Thermal Analysis. Winner of the 1993 ICTAC/TA International Award; Founding affiliate of Thermochimica Acta (1970), Journal of Mining and Metallurgy (1996) and Int. Journal of Applied Glass Science (2010). - 293 CC publications, 13 books, 2012 SCI citations, H-index 23.

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