DSC has been employed to measure the vaporization kinetics of water from the bulk and from powders of laponite, Na-montmorillonite, and chitosan. The application of isoconversional kinetic analysis to the vaporization rate data has yielded the following average effective activation energies: 43.80 +/- 0.03,47.9 +/- 0.4, 52.6 +/- 0.9,and 56.2 +/- 0.2 kJ mol(-1) for vaporization from the bulk, laponite, sodium montmorillonite, and chitosan, respectively. A moderate increase in the activation energy is comparable to the hydrogen bond energy and can be explained by interaction between water and solid surfaces. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.