This paper reviews the fundamental concepts and the terminology of wetting. In particular, it
focuses on high temperature wetting phenomena of primary interest to materials scientists …

▪ Abstract Interfaces between solids and liquids are important for a range of materials
processes, including soldering and brazing, liquid-phase sintering, crystal growth, and …

Intrinsically ductile metals are prone to catastrophic failure when exposed to certain liquid
metals, but the atomic-level mechanism for this effect is not fully understood. We …

In this article, we present an epitaxial model for heterogeneous nucleation on potent
substrates. It is proposed that heterogeneous nucleation of the solid phase (S) on a potent …

Our current understanding of heterogeneous nucleation has been dominated by the
classical nucleation theory (CNT) with little progress of significance being made in past 100 …

An important reason for the century-long debate concerning wetting dynamics is the lack of
decisive information about the contact line. The contact line cannot be treated as a …

Heterogeneous nucleation and grain initiation are two different processes in early-stage
solidification (ESS), although both are deterministic. Heterogeneous nucleation refers to the …

Heterogeneous nucleation is a widespread phenomenon in both nature and technology.
However, our current understanding is largely confined to the classical nucleation theory …

Prenucleation refers to the phenomenon of substrate-induced atomic ordering in the liquid
adjacent to the liquid/substrate interface at temperatures above the nucleation temperature …

The nucleation of solid Al from the melt by TiB 2 is well established and is believed to
involve the formation of Al 3 Ti. Since the atomic-scale mechanisms involved are not fully …