Preface: The eyewitness's recollections on thermal analysis maturity; the half century anniversary of formation of the new field, which is now due for revision, Jaroslav Šesták, Věra Šestáková, Jerry P. Czarnecki .- Local Thermal Analysis by Structural Characterization (TASC), Mike Reading, Sheng Qi .- What is the physical and operational meaning of temperature and its self-measurability during unsteady thermal processes?, Miroslav Holeček, Jiří J. Mareš, Jaroslav. Šesták, Pavel Hubík.- What is entropy – a generalized outlook and application to living systems, František Maršík, Pavel Novotný, Martin Tomáš.- Relativistic query: temperature transformation, Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, Jaroslav Šesták, Pavel. Hubík.- Kinetic phase diagrams as an enforced consequence of rapid changing temperature or diminishing particle size: thermodynamic fundamentals and limits, Jaroslav Šesták.- Self-organized periodic processes: from macro-layers to micro-world of diffusion and down to the quantum aspects of light, Jaroslav Šesták, Pavel Hubík, Jiří J. Mareš, Jiří Stávek.- Clapeyron and Ehrenfest equations and hyperfree energy for partly open systems, Pavel Holba, David Sedmidubský .- Non-stoichiometric phases – composition, properties and phase transitions, David Sedmidubský, Pavel Holba .- How do crystals nucleate and grow: Ostwald’s rule of stages and beyond, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer, Alexander S. Abyzov.- Imperfections of Kissinger evaluation method and the explanation of crystallization kinetics of glasses and melts, Pavel Holba, Jaroslav Šesták.- Thermo-kinetic phenomena occurring in glasses: their formalism and mutual relationships, Roman Svoboda, Jiří Málek, Jaroslav Šesták.- Parameterization and validation of thermochemical models of glass by advanced statistical analysis of spectral data, Jan Macháček, Mária Chromčíková, Marek Liška.- Equivalence of the Arrhenius and non-arrhenian temperature functions, its applicability and revision of traditional isoconversional kinetics, Peter Šimon, Tibor Dubaj, Zuzana Cibulková.- Rationale and myth of thermoanalytical kinetic patterns: How to model reaction mechanisms by the Euclidean and fractal geometry and by logic approach, Jaroslav Šesták, Isak Avramov.- The role of heat transfer and ensuing heat inertia in differential thermal measurements and its impact to non-isothermal kinetic evaluations, Pavel Holba, Jaroslav Šesták.- Thermal gradients in thermal analysis experiments, Jordi Farjas , Daniel Sánchez-Rodriguez, Hichem Eloussifi, Pere Roura.- The physical kinetics of reversible thermal decomposition, Jerry P. Czarnecki, Jaroslav Šesták.- Sample Controlled Thermal Analysis (SCTA) As a Promising Tool for Kinetic Characterization of Solid-State Reaction and Controlled Material Synthesis, Jose M. Criado, Luis A. Pérez-Maqueda, Nobuyoshi Koga.- Thermodynamic equilibria in systems with nanoparticles, Jindřich Leitner, David Sedmidubský .- Physico-chemical analysis of ceramic material systems: from macro- to nanostate, Vladimir Ya. Shevchenko.- Thermal insulation and porosity – from macro to nanoscale, Dana Křemenáková, Jiří Militký, Mohanapriya Venkataraman, Rajesh Mishra.- Biomaterials and nanotechnology approach to medical enhancement, Tomáš Kovářík, Tomáš Křenek, Petr Bělský, Jaroslav Šesták.- Thermal analysis scheme anticipated for better understanding of the Earth climate changes: impact of irradiation, absorbability, atmosphere and nanoparticles, Jaroslav Šesták, Pavel Hubík, Jiří J. Mareš.- Thermodynamics and Economics , Jürgen Mimkes.- Infiniteness – a fundamental misconception in physics, Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, Pavel Hubík.- Professional value of scientific papers and their citation responding, Jaroslav Fiala, Jaroslav Šesták.<p></p>
