6  Recent developments in calorimetry

Synthesis and characterization of ultramicroporous silica xerogels

“…Immersion calorimetry is an experimental technique that may complement the information deduced from gas adsorption and has been applied for the characterization of carbons and zeolites [9][10][11][12]. When a previously degassed solid is immersed into a liquid in which it does not dissolve or react, it releases some amount of energy known as enthalpy of immersion (D imm H) [13].…”

Study of heat capacity enhancement in some nanostructured materials

“…Many other thermodynamic properties, such as enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs free energy can be calculated from highly precise heat capacity data [13]. Hence, much work has been done to measure heat capacities with adiabatic calorimetric instruments throughout the world [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26].…”

Water content influence on thermal and volumetric properties of wheat starch gelatinization under 10 MPa

“…The variations of the dependent variable as well as the associated heat effect were simultaneously recorded as a function of time or of the scanned variable. A single transitiometric experiment always leads to simultaneous determination of a pair of thermodynamic derivatives (thermal and mechanical) or to a pair of thermomechanical coefficients (α p and κ T , γ and κ T , C p and α p , or C V and γ, depending on the selection of the pair of independent variables) 60,61,63 …”