Michael E. Brown

TL;DR: The results of the ICTAC Kinetics Project as mentioned in this paper have been used to forecast the tendencies for the future development of solid state kinetics, as well as the findings of the participants are compared.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the energy distribution among the immobilized constituents of a crystalline reactant is not represented by the Maxwell-Boltzmann equation. And the existence of such interface energy levels, with a limited range of energies, would also allow for the variation of apparent activation energy with extent of reaction, and also with temperature, reported for many complex solid state reactions.

TL;DR: In more than 50 years since its publication, a paper in the Transactions of the Faraday Society by Prout and Tompkins has been extensively cited in the literature The paper dealt with the kinetics of the thermal decomposition of crystals of potassium permanganate, and suggested a rate equation for use in the kinetic analysis of solid-state reactions as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: An observed kinetic compensation effect (KCE) can be a result of differences in the sample or experimental conditions, be an indication of complex reaction controls, or, as shown in this survey, may be a computational artifact.

TL;DR: The non-parametric kinetics (NPK) method is a “model-free” method of kinetic analysis that does not seem to have received the attention that it deserves and deserves wider testing and also raises some interesting aspects of the philosophy behind non-isothermal kinetic analysis.