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 …

Understanding the nature of solid-liquid interfaces is important for many processes of
technological interest, such as solidification, liquid-phase epitaxial growth, wetting, liquid …

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 …

In vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth, the liquid phase plays a pivotal role in mediating mass
transport from the vapor source to the growth front of a nanowire. Such transport often takes …

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 …

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 kinetics of atomic attachments at the liquid/solid interface is one of the foundations of
solidification theory, and to date one of the long-standing questions remains: whether or not …