Christoph Schick is Professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of Rostock and is Head of the Polymer Physics Group. His research focuses on advanced calorimetry, like temperature modulated or fast scanning, applied to polymers, metals, and other substances. He is interested in crystallization, nucleation, and glass transition in these materials. He authored or coauthored about 300 publications and received the Mettler Toledo Award of NATAS, The James J. Christensen Memorial Award of the Calorimetry Conference and the Wissenschaftspreis of GEFTA.Vincent Mathot performed research at DSM Research, SciTe BV (both in the Netherlands) and as guest professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) on molecular structure; crystallization and melting; morphology; thermal properties; relationships between these topics with regard to polymeric systems; as well as development of methods and advanced instrumentation. Throughout his aim was to link quantitative, fundamental research to applications, and to make the results found available to the scientific community by publications and lectures. He edited a book and a special issue on thermal properties of polymers, and is recipient of the Mettler-Toledo Award of NATAS and the TA Instruments ICTAC Award for his thermal analysis activities.

"The editors expertly identify contributors and maintain a high level of consistency and subject matter for each chapter. ... Most impressive is the wide variety of new experiments and applications that can be conducted with the instruments discussed within the work. This very professional, reader-friendly text demonstrates and explains the rapid development of a set of new thermal methods with exciting capabilities. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty; professionals." (J. Allison, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)

• Part 1. Advanced Instrumentation, Techniques and Methods.- Concepts and Practice of Material Characterization Using Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Non-adiabatic Scanning Calorimeter For Controlled Fast Cooling and Heating.- Quasi-adiabatic, Membrane-based, Highly Sensitive Fast Scanning Nanocalorimetry.- Fast Scanning Calorimetry— Fast Thermal Desorption Technique: The Thin Wire Approach.- Fast Scanning Calorimetry of Silk Fibroin Protein: Sample Mass and Specific Heat Capacity Determination.- Scanning AC Nano-calorimetry and its Applications.- Isoconversional Kinetics by Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Reliable Absolute Vapor Pressures of Extremely Low Volatile Compounds From Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Part 2. Combination with Analytical Techniques and Molecular Simulations.- Design of an in-Situ Setup Combining Nanocalorimetry and Nano- or Micro-Focus X-Ray Scattering to Address Fast Structure Formation Processes.- Combining Fast Scanning Chip-Calorimetry With Structural and Morphological Characterization Techniques.- Integration of FSC with Microstructural Analysis Techniques.- Combining Fast-scan Chip-calorimetry with Molecular Simulations to Investigate Polymer Crystal Melting.- Part 3. Dynamics of (de)vitrification.- Cooling Rate Dependent Glass Transition in Thin Polymer Films and in Bulk.- The Glass Transition and Structural Recovery Using Flash DSC.- Part 4. Metastability and Reorganization in relation to Crystallization and Melting.- New Insights into Polymer Crystallization by Fast Scanning Chip Calorimetry.- Mesophase Formation in iPP Copolymers.- Industrial Applications of Fast Scanning DSC – New Opportunities for studying Polyolefin Crystallization.- Full-Temperature Range Crystallization Rates of Polyamides by FSC as Key to Processing.- Kinetic Studies of Melting, Crystallization, and Glass Formation.- Nucleation Kinetics Analyses of Deeply Undercooled Metallic Liquids by Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Fast Scanning Calorimetry of Phase Transitions in Metals.- Precipitation- and Dissolution-Kinetics in Metallic Alloys with Focus on Aluminium Alloys by Calorimetry in a Wide Scanning Rate Range.- Martensitic Transformation of NiMnGa Shape Memory Alloys Thin Films Studied by Flash DSC.

Christoph Schick is Professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of Rostock and is Head of the Polymer Physics Group. His research focuses on advanced calorimetry, like temperature modulated or fast scanning, applied to polymers, metals, and other substances. He is interested in crystallization, nucleation, and glass transition in these materials. He authored or coauthored about 300 publications and received the Mettler Toledo Award of NATAS, The James J. Christensen Memorial Award of the Calorimetry Conference and the Wissenschaftspreis of GEFTA.Vincent Mathot performed research at DSM Research, SciTe BV (both in the Netherlands) and as guest professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) on molecular structure; crystallization and melting; morphology; thermal properties; relationships between these topics with regard to polymeric systems; as well as development of methods and advanced instrumentation. Throughout his aim was to link quantitative, fundamental research to applications, and to make the results found available to the scientific community by publications and lectures. He edited a book and a special issue on thermal properties of polymers, and is recipient of the Mettler-Toledo Award of NATAS and the TA Instruments ICTAC Award for his thermal analysis activities.

"The editors expertly identify contributors and maintain a high level of consistency and subject matter for each chapter. ... Most impressive is the wide variety of new experiments and applications that can be conducted with the instruments discussed within the work. This very professional, reader-friendly text demonstrates and explains the rapid development of a set of new thermal methods with exciting capabilities. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty; professionals." (J. Allison, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)

• Part 1. Advanced Instrumentation, Techniques and Methods.- Concepts and Practice of Material Characterization Using Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Non-adiabatic Scanning Calorimeter For Controlled Fast Cooling and Heating.- Quasi-adiabatic, Membrane-based, Highly Sensitive Fast Scanning Nanocalorimetry.- Fast Scanning Calorimetry— Fast Thermal Desorption Technique: The Thin Wire Approach.- Fast Scanning Calorimetry of Silk Fibroin Protein: Sample Mass and Specific Heat Capacity Determination.- Scanning AC Nano-calorimetry and its Applications.- Isoconversional Kinetics by Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Reliable Absolute Vapor Pressures of Extremely Low Volatile Compounds From Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Part 2. Combination with Analytical Techniques and Molecular Simulations.- Design of an in-Situ Setup Combining Nanocalorimetry and Nano- or Micro-Focus X-Ray Scattering to Address Fast Structure Formation Processes.- Combining Fast Scanning Chip-Calorimetry With Structural and Morphological Characterization Techniques.- Integration of FSC with Microstructural Analysis Techniques.- Combining Fast-scan Chip-calorimetry with Molecular Simulations to Investigate Polymer Crystal Melting.- Part 3. Dynamics of (de)vitrification.- Cooling Rate Dependent Glass Transition in Thin Polymer Films and in Bulk.- The Glass Transition and Structural Recovery Using Flash DSC.- Part 4. Metastability and Reorganization in relation to Crystallization and Melting.- New Insights into Polymer Crystallization by Fast Scanning Chip Calorimetry.- Mesophase Formation in iPP Copolymers.- Industrial Applications of Fast Scanning DSC – New Opportunities for studying Polyolefin Crystallization.- Full-Temperature Range Crystallization Rates of Polyamides by FSC as Key to Processing.- Kinetic Studies of Melting, Crystallization, and Glass Formation.- Nucleation Kinetics Analyses of Deeply Undercooled Metallic Liquids by Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Fast Scanning Calorimetry of Phase Transitions in Metals.- Precipitation- and Dissolution-Kinetics in Metallic Alloys with Focus on Aluminium Alloys by Calorimetry in a Wide Scanning Rate Range.- Martensitic Transformation of NiMnGa Shape Memory Alloys Thin Films Studied by Flash DSC.

Christoph Schick is Professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of Rostock and is Head of the Polymer Physics Group. His research focuses on advanced calorimetry, like temperature modulated or fast scanning, applied to polymers, metals, and other substances. He is interested in crystallization, nucleation, and glass transition in these materials. He authored or coauthored about 300 publications and received the Mettler Toledo Award of NATAS, The James J. Christensen Memorial Award of the Calorimetry Conference and the Wissenschaftspreis of GEFTA.Vincent Mathot performed research at DSM Research, SciTe BV (both in the Netherlands) and as guest professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) on molecular structure; crystallization and melting; morphology; thermal properties; relationships between these topics with regard to polymeric systems; as well as development of methods and advanced instrumentation. Throughout his aim was to link quantitative, fundamental research to applications, and to make the results found available to the scientific community by publications and lectures. He edited a book and a special issue on thermal properties of polymers, and is recipient of the Mettler-Toledo Award of NATAS and the TA Instruments ICTAC Award for his thermal analysis activities.

"The editors expertly identify contributors and maintain a high level of consistency and subject matter for each chapter. ... Most impressive is the wide variety of new experiments and applications that can be conducted with the instruments discussed within the work. This very professional, reader-friendly text demonstrates and explains the rapid development of a set of new thermal methods with exciting capabilities. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty; professionals." (J. Allison, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)

• Part 1. Advanced Instrumentation, Techniques and Methods.- Concepts and Practice of Material Characterization Using Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Non-adiabatic Scanning Calorimeter For Controlled Fast Cooling and Heating.- Quasi-adiabatic, Membrane-based, Highly Sensitive Fast Scanning Nanocalorimetry.- Fast Scanning Calorimetry— Fast Thermal Desorption Technique: The Thin Wire Approach.- Fast Scanning Calorimetry of Silk Fibroin Protein: Sample Mass and Specific Heat Capacity Determination.- Scanning AC Nano-calorimetry and its Applications.- Isoconversional Kinetics by Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Reliable Absolute Vapor Pressures of Extremely Low Volatile Compounds From Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Part 2. Combination with Analytical Techniques and Molecular Simulations.- Design of an in-Situ Setup Combining Nanocalorimetry and Nano- or Micro-Focus X-Ray Scattering to Address Fast Structure Formation Processes.- Combining Fast Scanning Chip-Calorimetry With Structural and Morphological Characterization Techniques.- Integration of FSC with Microstructural Analysis Techniques.- Combining Fast-scan Chip-calorimetry with Molecular Simulations to Investigate Polymer Crystal Melting.- Part 3. Dynamics of (de)vitrification.- Cooling Rate Dependent Glass Transition in Thin Polymer Films and in Bulk.- The Glass Transition and Structural Recovery Using Flash DSC.- Part 4. Metastability and Reorganization in relation to Crystallization and Melting.- New Insights into Polymer Crystallization by Fast Scanning Chip Calorimetry.- Mesophase Formation in iPP Copolymers.- Industrial Applications of Fast Scanning DSC – New Opportunities for studying Polyolefin Crystallization.- Full-Temperature Range Crystallization Rates of Polyamides by FSC as Key to Processing.- Kinetic Studies of Melting, Crystallization, and Glass Formation.- Nucleation Kinetics Analyses of Deeply Undercooled Metallic Liquids by Fast Scanning Calorimetry.- Fast Scanning Calorimetry of Phase Transitions in Metals.- Precipitation- and Dissolution-Kinetics in Metallic Alloys with Focus on Aluminium Alloys by Calorimetry in a Wide Scanning Rate Range.- Martensitic Transformation of NiMnGa Shape Memory Alloys Thin Films Studied by Flash DSC.