An overview of isothermal microcalorimetry in battery research, development and quality control in order to illustrate the versatility and providing an idea of the possibilities of isothermal microcalorimetry.
DetailsIsothermal titration calorimetry is a technique where heat is measured under constant pressure. This heat can be translated into enthalpy based on the First Law of Thermodynamics. Although the focus of the technique has been rooted in measuring biophysical phenomena in labs that specialized in calorimetry, it has seen growth as a general technique to quantitatively describe systems from proteins to nanomaterials.
DetailsThe nitinol shape-memory alloy solid-solid transition is studied using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), which reveals the reversible and hysteretic nature of this transition. This can be used to provide information on the composition of the nitinol alloy. It also serves as a tool to detect the existence of, and changes in, the intermediate R-phase.
DetailsWe performed a comparability study of a liquid protein reference formulation using a nano differential scanning calorimeter (Nano DSC) to reveal that this thermodynamic technology detects the smallest changes in biomolecular structure in response to subtle manipulations in the reference formulation.
DetailsThe purpose of this paper is to provide a universally acceptable definition of “Melting” and then illustrate that loss of crystalline structure in many materials can be caused by numerous chemical processes other than thermodynamic or “True Melting”.
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