Isoconversional Kinetics of Thermally Stimulated Processes (eBook)

Professor Sergey Vyazovkin received his Ph.D. from the Byelorussian State University in 1989. He then joined the Institute for Physical Chemistry (Minsk) where he worked until 1993. Since 1993 he had held visiting positions at the Technical University of Vienna, the University of Toledo, and the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. Before joining the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he worked in the University of Utah as a research faculty and the deputy director of the Center for Thermal Analysis. His research interests are concerned with the application of thermal analysis methods to thermally stimulated processes in a wide variety of condensed phase systems. He is a winner of Mettler-Toledo Award in thermal analysis and of James J. Christensen Award in calorimetry. Prof. Vyazovkin is editor of Thermochimica Acta and a member of the editorial board of Macromolecular Rapid Communications and Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. He is a member of the American Chemical Society Analytical Division, the North American Thermal Analysis Society, and the International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry.

1. Some basics en route to isoconversional methodology
1.1.From condensed phase kinetics to isoconversional principle
1.2.Understanding variable activation energy
1.3.Obtaining computation worthy data
2. Isoconversional methodology
2.1.Evolution of isoconversional methods
2.1.1.Early methods
2.1.2.Modern methods
2.2.Estimating reaction models and preexponential factors
2.2.1.Prelude
2.2.2.The use of the compensation effect
2.2.3.The use of the y() or z() master plots
2.3.Kinetic predictions
2.3.1.Why predictions?
2.3.2.Model-based vs. model-free
2.3.3.Understanding precision and accuracy of predictions
3. Physical Processes
3.1.Phases and transitions between them
3.2.Vaporization and Sublimation
3.2.1.Background
3.2.2.Isoconversional treatment
3.3.Glass transition
3.3.1.Background
3.3.2.Isoconversional treatment
3.4.Glass aging
3.4.1.Background
3.4.2.Isoconversional treatment
3.4.3.Activation energies of -relaxation from DSC
3.5.Nucleation
3.6.Crystallization of polymers
3.6.1.Background
3.6.2.Isoconversional treatment
3.7.Melting of polymers
3.7.1.Background
3.7.2.Isoconversional treatment
3.8.Solid-solid transitions
3.8.1.Background
3.8.2.Isoconversional treatment
3.9.Mixing and demixing
3.9.1.Background
3.9.2.Isoconversional treatment
3.10.Gelation and gel melting
3.10.1.Background
3.10.2.Isoconversional treatment of gelation
3.10.3.Isoconversional treatment of gel melting
3.11.Helix-Coil Transition
3.11.1.Background
3.11.2.Isoconversional treatment of protein denaturation
4. Chemical processes
4.1.Introduction
4.2.Polymerization and Crosslinking
4.2.1.Background to polymerization
4.2.2.Isoconversional treatment of polymerization
4.2.3.Background to crosslinking
4.2.4.Isoconversional treatment of crosslinking
4.3.Thermal and Thermo-oxidative degradation of polymers
4.3.1.Background
4.3.2.Isoconversional treatment
4.4.Thermal decomposition of solids
4.4.1.Background
4.4.2.Isoconversional treatment
5. Epilogue