Only 7 pg of substance are needed to measure solid-solid phase transitions in n-alkanes with a new type of calorimeter (see schematic picture). This corresponds to a transition heat of only 500 pJ. The small time constant of the calorimeter additionally permits the observation of dynamic effects in the examined phase transitions.
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Nakagawa et al. (1999) studied this question.