Dynamic thermal analysis of solid-state reactions - The ultimate method for data analysis?

There are many reactions of interest in which one or more of the reactants belong to some solid phases. Modern thermoanalytical instruments can conveniently provide reaction kinetic data of high precision and accuracy, from which the underlying activation energy E may be derived in principle. Unfortunately, no 'best' method yet exists for the derivation when the data have been collected with a programmed linear increase in sample temperature, unlike the case of isothermal measurements, which however suffer from experimental limitations [II. Here we propose a method for extracting E from non-isothermal data, that promises general validity.