Obesity is a physiological condition of chronic positive energy balance. While the regulation of energy metabolism varies widely among individuals, identifying those who are metabolically prone to ...

Users can use simple equipment to measure enthalpy, a term often associated with physicists but significantly relevant to daily life. Heat transfer plays a pivotal role in all these processes, and ...

The purpose of the whole-room indirect calorimetry suite is to provide measurements of human energy expenditure and substrate utilization, both long-term (24-hour) and short-term (1–6-hour), for ...

In this interview, AZoM talks to Jurgen Schawe from Mettler Toledo about fast scanning chip calorimetry and the various applications this can be utilized in. Could you please begin by giving our ...

Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have developed a new method that allows them to visualize the contribution of the interaction between water and proteins for the first time with ...

Like someone who finally sits after a long, tiring day of standing, gas-phase molecules breathe a sigh of relief, so to speak, as they “take a seat” (adsorb) on solid surfaces. The sigh comes in the ...

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is a key method for analysing material properties such as thermal transitions, ...

What is a calorie? While most people think of calories in relation to food, calories are simply a unit of heat energy. In fact, measuring calories is essential to energy science because every chemical ...

During EV usage, the energy contained in a battery is released through exothermic chemical reactions, which release large volumes of heat energy. Batteries are designed in such a way that this heat ...