Preface

Thermal Analysis

“…The most important event appearing as a special issue is the Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (9). Other proceedings published were the 23rd and 24th Conference of the North American Thermal Analysis Society (10,11), the 6th European Symposium on Thermal Analysis (12), the 30th Anniversary Conference of the Japan Society of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis (13), the U.K. National Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Symposium (14), the XVII Conference AICAT-GI-CAT VI Meeting (15), the 14th IUPAC Conference on Chemical Thermodynamics, ICCT-96 (16), and the Joint meeting of GEFTA and the thermoanalytical group of the Hungarian Chemical Society (17). Special issues continue to appear; the first reaction calorimetry (18) and the second coupling thermal analysis and gas analysis methods (19) may be quoted.…”