Handbook of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

This is Volume 5 of a Handbook that has been well-received by the thermal analysis and calorimetry community. All chapters in all five volumes are written by international experts in the subject. The fifth volume covers recent advances. The chapters refer to wherever possible to earlier volumes. The latest recommendations on Nomenclature are also included. Amongst the important new techniques that are covered are micro-thermal analysis, pulsed thermal analysis, and fast-scanning calorimetrics. There are detailed reviews of heating - stage spectroscopy, catalysis and the study of nanoparticles. The development and application of thermochemical properties. Applications to inorganic and coordination chemistry are reviewed, including the importance of polymorphism. The volume concludes with the use of thermal analysis and calorimetry in quality control.

* Updates and complements previous volumes
* Internationally recognized experts as authors
* Each chapter complete in itself

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION IS RECENT ADVANCES, TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS (Michael E. Brown and Patrick K. Gallagher)
CHAPTER 2. DEVELOPMENTS IN NOMENCLATURE (Jean Rouquerol, I. Wadsö, T. Lever and P. Haines)
CHAPTER 3. MICRO-THERMAL ANALYSIS AND RELATED TECHNIQUES (Duncan M. Price)
CHAPTER 4. PULSE THERMAL ANALYSIS (M. Maciejewski and A. Baiker)
CHAPTER 5. THE QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE (Allan L. Smith)
CHAPTER 6. HEATING STAGE SPECTROSCOPY: INFRARED, RAMAN, ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY AND X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY (Ray L. Frost and J. Theo Kloprogge)
CHAPTER 7. ELECTRICAL TECHNIQUES (Madalena Dionísio and João F. Mano)
CHAPTER 8. BENEFITS AND POTENTIALS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY (HPer DSC) (Vincent BF Mathot, Geert Vanden Poel and Thijs FJ Pijpers)
CHAPTER 9. DYNAMIC PULSE CALORIMETERS - THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLID AND LIQUID METALS AND ALLOYS (C. Cagran and G. Pottlacher)
CHAPTER 10. SURFACE PROPERTIES OF NANOPARTICLES
(Piotr Staszczuk)
CHAPTER 11. HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS ON SOLIDS
(Ljiljana Damjanovic and Aline Auroux)
CHAPTER 12. COORDINATION COMPOUNDS AND INORGANICS (Stefano Materazzi)
CHAPTER 13. ISOCONVERSIONAL KINETICS (Sergey Vyazovkin)
CHAPTER 14. THERMOCHEMISTRY (MV Roux and M. Temprado)
CHAPTER 15. THERMAL ANALYSIS AND RHEOLOGY
(Mustafa Versan Kok)
CHAPTER 16. POLYMORPHISM (Mino R. Caira)
CHAPTER 17. DENTAL MATERIALS (WA Brantley)
CHAPTER 18. MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF THERMAL METHODS (Beverley D. Glass)
CHAPTER 19. QUALITY CONTROL (Donald J. Burlett)