Special Issue: Thermal Analysis of Materials

• Published in: Materials Vol. 14; no. 17; p. 4923
• Main Authors: Ushakov, Sergey V., Hayun, Shmuel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 30.08.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: Acoustic velocity; Anesthetics; Carbon dioxide; Carbon sequestration; Cement; Ceramics industry; Cold flow; Conflicts of interest; Creep (materials); Density; Differential thermal analysis; Differential thermogravimetric analysis; Fire protection; High temperature; Inorganic materials; Interdisciplinary subjects; Intermetallic compounds; Laser interferometry; Liquid alloys; Perovskites; Phase diagrams; Plasma sintering; Portland cements; Pressure dependence; Sorbents; Temperature dependence; Thermal conductivity; Thermal insulation; Thermogravimetry
• ISSN: 1996-1944; 1996-1944
• DOI: 10.3390/ma14174923

In several papers, well-established techniques of differential thermal analysis, thermogravimetry, and gas adsorption calorimetry are applied to research related to environmental problems, such as capturing CO2 from industrial processes by calcium looping [1]; the utilization of copper tailing wastes as an addition to Portland cement [2]; the reuse of soda lime CO2 absorbent in spacecrafts, submarines, anesthetics, and diving apparatuses [3]; and the passive fire protection offered by inorganic material-based insulation [4]. Another set of papers deals with the development of new or application-specific approaches, namely laser interferometry techniques for high precision measurements on non-standard samples, such as composite truss structures [5]; measurements of high temperature compressive creep in spark plasma sintering apparatuses [6]; measurements of the density of liquid oxides with aero-acoustic levitators [7]; and the simultaneous estimation of thermal conductivity and heat capacity in metal alloys [8].The range of materials covered includes polymers [9,10]; natural complex inorganic materials, such as natural sorbents [1] and industrial-grade thermal insulation [4]; single phase ceramic materials, such as spinel MgAl2O4 [11], rare earth sesquioxides [12], and double perovskite cobaltites [13]; metals, alloys, and intermetallic compounds [8,14,15,16]. [17] extend the CALPHAD approach by calculating pressure dependence of several binary metal phase diagrams based on the temperature dependence of sound velocity and density data in liquid alloys. [...]this Special Issue provides a sampling of the current use, diversity, and ongoing developments of techniques and approaches in the thermal analysis of materials.