HIGH TEMPERATURE CAPILLARITY aims at issues related to surfaces and interfaces, wetting and capillarity in materials themselves as well as in materials processing and operating at elevated temperatures, including the following topics:
- Liquid surfaces of metals, glasses and salts
- Surface energy and adsorption
- Metal/metal, metal/ceramic, metal/glass and ceramic/ceramic interfaces: wettability, adhesion, interfacial reactions, segregation, grain boundary wetting and intergranular films
- Capillarity in microgravity
- Capillarity in nano-science and nano-technology
- Marangoni phenomena
- Corrosion and embrittlement by liquid metals
- Advances in measurement techniques
- Modelling and simulation
- Materials processing by liquid-assisted techniques: crystal growth, metallurgical and metalcasting processes, synthesis of metal-matrix and ceramic-matrix composites, additive manufacturing, joining dissimilar materials.
- Joining dissimilar materials by liquid-assisted techniques.
