The isothermal and nonisothermal crystallization kinetics of monoglyceride (MAG) organogels were studied by pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance (pNMR) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), respectively. The Avrami equation was used to describe the isothermal crystallization kinetics and experimental data fitted the equation fairly well. Results showed that the crystal growth of MAG organog...

The reaction kinetics for the formation of CuInSe2 thin films from a stacked bilayer precursor consisting of InSe and CuSe was studied by means of in situ high-temperature x-ray diffraction. In particular, the isothermal phase evolution of the glass/InSe/CuSe precursor was observed at different temperatures. The pathway produces a CuInSe2 diffusion barrier layer that also functions as a nucleat...

The characterization of the crystallization kinetics of an amorphous soft magnetic alloy, Fe88Zr7B4Cu1, called NANOPERM, is presented. Vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM), X-ray diffractometry, and differential scanning calorimetry have been used to observe crystallization kinetics. The VSM observations take advantage of the Curie temperature of the amorphous phase c amorphous of the NANOPERM a...

The classification of martensitic displacive transformations into athermal, isothermal or anisothermal is discussed. Athermal does not mean “no temperature dependence” as is often thought, but is best considered to be short for the notion of no thermal activation. Processes with no thermal activation do not depend on time, as there is no need to wait for sufficient statistical fluctuations in s...

A recent series of papers on single-step drawing of PET film has provided the first systematic examination of the manner in which interactions of the rate of molecular relaxation, the rate of crystallization, and the rate of deformation result in specific polymer microstructures (D.R. Salem, et al., Polymer, 1992, 1994, and 1995, Macromolecules, 1995, Antech’96, Vol II). This information is bei...

The pair correlation function g(2)(r) in a classical many-body system depends in a nontrivial way both on the number density F and on the pair interactions ν(r), and a long-standing goal of statistical mechanics has been to predict these effects quantitatively. The present investigation focuses on a restricted circumstance whereby simultaneous isothermal changes in F and ν(r) have exactly cance...

In this paper, the decomposition reaction models and thermal hazard properties of 1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazinane (RDX) and its PBXs bonded by Formex P1, Semtex 1A, C4, Viton A and Fluorel polymer matrices have been investigated based on isoconversional and combined kinetic analysis methods. The established kinetic triplets are used to predict the constant decomposition rate temperature profile...

The objective of this work was to study the polymorphic transformation of carbamazepine from Form II to Form III in 1-propanol during seeded isothermal batch crystallization. First, the pure Form II and Form III were obtained and characterized. Then their solubilities and metastable zone limits were measured by in-situ attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectrosc...

The effect of dextran sulfate on protein aggregation was investigated to provide the clues of its biochemical mechanism. The interaction between dextran sulfate and BSA varied with the pH values of the solution, which led to the different extent of aggregation prevention by dextran sulfate. Light scattering data with thermal scan showed that dextran sulfate suppressed BSA aggregation at pH 5.1 ...