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In this chapter the author shares some of his thoughts on the present status of theisoconversional kinetics and its future progress and challenges.
Since no one knows the future, who can tell someone else what is to come?
Ecclesiastes 8:7
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Vyazovkin, S. (2015). Epilogue. In: Isoconversional Kinetics of Thermally Stimulated Processes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14175-6_5
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