Transparent glass ceramics (TGCs) with minimized scattering loss offer the combined
characteristics of both glasses and (transparent) ceramics. The functionalities of the …

Fast scanning chip calorimetry in its non-adiabatic version allows for heating and cooling at
rates up to 10 6 K s− 1, covering all polymer processing relevant rates. Furthermore it allows …

An updated edition of the essential guide to the technology of glass-ceramic technology
Glass-ceramic materials share many properties with both glass and more traditional …

The intrinsically disordered protein tau associates with microtubules in neurons but
aggregates into cross–β amyloid fibrils that propagate in neurodegenerative brains. Different …

The pathway of crystal nucleation significantly influences the structure and properties of
semi-crystalline polymers. Crystal nucleation is normally heterogeneous at low …

Crystal nucleation rates have been measured in the supercooled melts of two richly
polymorphic glass-forming liquids: ROY and nifedipine (NIF). ROY or 5-methyl-2-[(2 …

Over the past three decades, researchers have investigated the existence of possible
relationships between crystal nucleation kinetics and the atomic-scale structure of silicate …

In the application of classical nucleation theory (CNT) and all other theoretical models of
crystallization of liquids and glasses it is always assumed that nucleation proceeds only after …

Traditionally depicted as homogeneous materials, manmade and volcanic glasses are often
subjected to nanostructuration during demixing and crystallization of their parental melt …

The past two decades have witnessed the rapid development of nanocalorimetry, a novel
materials characterization technique that employs micromachined calorimetric sensors. The …