1 Some Fundamental and Historical Aspects of
Phenomenological Kinetics in the Solid State Studied
by Thermal Analysis .......................................... 1
Nobuyoshi Koga, Jaroslav Šesták, and Peter Šimon
2 Equilibrium Background of Processes Initiated
by Heating and Ehrenfest's Classification of Phase
Transitions ................................................. 29
Pavel Holba
3 Crystal Defects and Nonstoichiometry Contributions
to Heat Capacity of Solids .................................. 53
Pavel Holba and David Sedmidubský
4 Forty Years of the Turnbull Reduced Glass Transition
Temperature and Hrubý Glass-Forming Coefficient and Their
Current Perception .......................................... 75
Ana Kozmidis-Petrovic and Jaroslav Šesták
5 Heat Transfer and Phase Transition in DTA Experiments ....... 99
Pavel Holba, Jaroslav Šesták, and David Sedmidubský
6 Determination of the Glass Transition by DSC:
A Comparison of Conventional and Dynamic Techniques ........ 135
John M. Hutchinson
7 Structural Relaxation and Viscosity Behavior in
Supercooled Liquids at the Glass Transition ................ 147
Jiří Málek and Roman Svoboda
8 Kinetics of Structural Relaxation in Glasses ............... 175
Emilia Illeková
9 Kinetics of Crystal Nucleation in Closed Systems ........... 195
Zdenĕk Kožíšek, Pavel Demo, and Alexey Sveshnikov
10 Influence of Preliminary Nucleation on the
Physicogeometric Kinetics of Glass Crystallization ......... 209
Nobuyoshi Koga and Jaroslav Šesták
11 Application of Isoconversional Methods for the Processes
Occurring in Glassy and Amorphous Materials ................ 225
Peter Šimon and Paul S. Thomas
12 Fractals in Solid-State Processes .......................... 247
Peter Simon, Oldřich Zmeškal, and Jaroslav Šesták
13 Crystallization of Metallic Micro-, Nano-, and Non-
Crystalline Alloys ......................................... 257
Emilia Illeková and Jaroslav Šesták
14 Crystallization Kinetics in Amorphous and Glassy
Materials .................................................. 291
Jiří Málek and Jana Shánělová
15 Comments on DTA/DSC Methods for Estimation of Crystal
Nucleation Rates in Glass-Forming Melts .................... 325
Vladimir M. Fokin, Aluísio Alves Cabral, Raphael M.C.V.
Reis, and Edgar D. Zanotto
16 Nonparametric Kinetic Methods .............................. 351
Julià Sempere, Rosa Nomen, Eduard Serra, and Bernat
Sempere
17 Electron Transport Studies of Disorder and Dimensionality
in Nano-Crystalline Diamond ................................ 371
Pavel Hubík and Jří J. Mareš
18 Controlled Nucleation and Crystallization for
Nanoparticle Synthesis ..................................... 399
Isak Avramov and Christian Rüssel
19 Nucleation on Strongly Curved Surfaces of Nanofibers ....... 419
Pavel Demo, Alexey Sveshnikov, and Zdenĕk Kožíšek
20 Thermal Analysis of Waste Glass Batches: Effect of Batch
Makeup on Gas-Evolving Reactions ........................... 429
David A. Pierce, Pavel Hrma, and José Marcial
21 Amorphous Inorganic Polysialates: Geopolymeric Composites
and the Bioactivity of Hydroxyl Groups ..................... 441
Jaroslav Šesták, Nobuyoshi Koga, Peter Šimon, Bronislav
Foller, Pavel Roubíček, and Nae-Lih N. Wu
22 Oxide Superconductors as Model Systems for Studying
Phase Relations, Stoichiometry, Reaction Kinetics,
and Unconventional Glass Formability ....................... 461
Takayuki Komatsu and Jaroslav Šesták
Index ......................................................... 481
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