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Isoconversional Kinetics of Thermally Stimulated Processes

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The chapter is devoted to the application of isoconversional methods to the phase transitions in one- and two-component systems. The one-component phase transitions include vaporization and sublimation, glass transition and aging, crystallization and melting of polymers, and morphological solid–solid transitions. The two-component phase transitions are the transitions in solutions. They include mixing and demixing, gelation and gel melting, and helix–coil transitions. Each transition is discussed in a separate section that identifies basic kinetic models that can be used to understand how the effective activation energy can vary throughout the transition. It is demonstrated that in many cases one can evaluate the parameters of the models by fitting the theoretical dependence of the activation energy to the experimental one. The chapter features multiple experimental examples of the isoconversional analysis.

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