Search Results - "Wight, Charles A."

Kinetics of the Thermal and Thermo-Oxidative Degradation of Polystyrene, Polyethylene and Poly(propylene) by Peterson, Jeffery D., Vyazovkin, Sergey, Wight, Charles A.

“…The thermal degradations of polystyrene (PS), polyethylene (PE), and poly(propylene) (PP) have been studied in both inert nitrogen and air atmospheres by using…”
Get full text

Kinetics of Thermal Decomposition of Cubic Ammonium Perchlorate by Vyazovkin, Sergey, Wight, Charles A

“…The methods of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimettry (DSC) have been used to study the thermal decomposition of ammonium…”
Get full text

Isothermal and Nonisothermal Reaction Kinetics in Solids:  In Search of Ways toward Consensus by Vyazovkin, Sergey, Wight, Charles A

“…Thermogravimetric data for the decomposition of ammonium dinitramide (ADN) have been obtained under isothermal and nonisothermal conditions in order to…”
Get full text

Kinetic Study of Stabilizing Effect of Oxygen on Thermal Degradation of Poly(methyl methacrylate) by Peterson, Jeffery D, Vyazovkin, Sergey, Wight, Charles A

“…The thermal degradation of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) has been studied in both pure nitrogen and oxygen-containing atmospheres. The presence of oxygen…”
Get full text

Thermal Dissociation Kinetics of Solid and Liquid Ammonium Nitrate by Vyazovkin, Sergey, Clawson, Jacalyn S, Wight, Charles A

“…Thermogravimetry has been used to study the kinetics of the thermal dissociation of solid and liquid ammonium nitrate. Model-fitting and model-free kinetic…”
Get full text

Crystallization kinetics of amorphous nifedipine studied by model-fitting and model-free approaches by Zhou, Deliang, Schmitt, Eric A, Zhang, Geoff G, Law, Devalina, Vyazovkin, Sergey, Wight, Charles A, Grant, David J W

“…The crystallization of amorphous nifedipine was studied using hot-stage microscopy (HSM), powder X-ray diffractometry (PXRD), and differential scanning…”
Get more information

Competitive Vaporization and Decomposition of Liquid RDX by Long, Gregory T, Vyazovkin, Sergey, Brems, Brittany A, Wight, Charles A

“…The thermal decomposition of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) has been studied by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning…”
Get full text

An Eulerian–Lagrangian computational model for deflagration and detonation of high explosives by Peterson, Joseph R., Wight, Charles A.

“…A solid phase explosives deflagration and detonation model capable of surface burning, convective bulk burning and detonation is formulated in the context of…”
Get full text

Model-free and model-fitting approaches to kinetic analysis of isothermal and nonisothermal data by Vyazovkin, Sergey, Wight, Charles A

“…The model-free and model-fitting kinetic approaches have been applied to data for nonisothermal and isothermal thermal decompositions of HMX and ammonium…”
Get full text

Isothermal and non-isothermal kinetics of thermally stimulated reactions of solids by Vyazovkin, Sergey, Wight, Charles A.

“…This review covers both the history and present state of the kinetics of thermally stimulated reactions in solids. The traditional methodology of kinetic…”
Get full text

Thermal Decomposition of Ammonium Dinitramide at Moderate and High Temperatures by Vyazovkin, Sergey, Wight, Charles A

“…Temperature-controlled gas cell and thin film laser pyrolysis techniques have been used to investigate the condensed phase thermal decomposition of ammonium…”
Get full text

Estimating Realistic Confidence Intervals for the Activation Energy Determined from Thermoanalytical Measurements by Vyazovkin, Sergey, Wight, Charles A

“…A statistical procedure is proposed for estimating realistic confidence intervals for the activation energy determined by using an advanced isoconversional…”
Get full text

Ammonium Dinitramide:  Kinetics and Mechanism of Thermal Decomposition by Vyazovkin, Sergey, Wight, Charles A

“…Thermal decomposition of ammonium dinitramide (ADN) has been studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermal gravimetry combined with mass…”
Get full text

Thermal Decomposition Kinetics of Hydrazinium Cerium 2,3-Pyrazinedicarboxylate Hydrate:  A New Precursor for CeO2 by Premkumar, Thathan, Govindarajan, Subbiah, Coles, Andrew E, Wight, Charles A

“…The thermal decomposition kinetics of N2H5[Ce(pyrazine-2,3-dicarboxylate)2(H2O)] (Ce−P) have been studied by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential…”
Get full text

Potential Energy Surface and Vibrational Frequencies of Carbonic Acid by Wight, Charles A, Boldyrev, Alexander I

Get full text

Model-free treatment of the dehydration kinetics of nedocromil sodium trihydrate by Zhou, Deliang, Schmitt, Eric A, Zhang, Geoff G Z, Law, Devalina, Wight, Charles A, Vyazovkin, Sergey, Grant, David J W

“…The conventional model-fitting approach to kinetic analysis assumes a fixed mechanism throughout the reaction and therefore may be too simplistic for many…”
Get more information

Hard to swallow dry: kinetics and mechanism of the anhydrous thermal decomposition of acetylsalicylic acid by Long, Gregory T, Vyazovkin, Sergey, Gamble, Nicoleigh, Wight, Charles A

“…The methods of thermal analysis and mass spectrometry have been used to study the kinetics and mechanism of the anhydrous thermal decomposition of…”
Get more information

Thermal Activation of the High Explosive NTO:  Sublimation, Decomposition, and Autocatalysis by Long, Gregory T, Brems, Brittany A, Wight, Charles A

“…Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) show that the heating of 5-nitro-2,4-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazol-3-one (NTO) leads to…”
Get full text

Thermal Decomposition of a Melt-Castable High Explosive:  Isoconversional Analysis of TNAZ by Long, Gregory T, Wight, Charles A

“…The thermal decomposition kinetics of the high explosive 1,3,3-trinitroazetidine (TNAZ) have been measured by nonisothermal differential scanning calorimetry…”
Get full text

Thermal decomposition kinetics of PBAN-binder and composite solid rocket propellants by SELL, T, VYAZOVKIN, S, WIGHT, C. A

“…It is shown that the thermal decompositions of PBAN binder and PBAN, HTPB, and BAMO-AMMO propellants follow multistep kinetics. The use of the advanced…”
Get full text