As one of the representative patterns in nature and laboratory experiments, dendritic
structures control the properties of a broad range of advanced materials. Dendrites arise …

Electrostatic levitators have been around for more than 30 years and have become mature
tools for the material science community. Originally developed as positioners for materials …

An analysis is given of the nonisothermal growth of a dendrite crystal under forced fluid flow
in a binary system. The theoretical model utilized employs a free moving crystal–liquid …

If a liquid is undercooled below its equilibrium melting temperature an excess Gibbs free
energy is created. This gives access to solidification of metastable solids under non …

We present a compact electrostatic levitator as a sample environment for high quality
neutron scattering experiments on melts. By this containerless approach we are able to …

Due to their inherent metastability, metallic glasses crystallize upon thermal activation, which
involves nucleation and growth. It is debatable, however, whether steady-state kinetics of …

Ni-Nb-based bulk glass-forming alloys are among the most promising amorphous metals for
industrial applications due to their incomparable combination of strength, hardness …

The atomic structures in equilibrium and supercooled liquids of Zr 80 Pt 20 were determined
as a function of temperature by in situ high-energy synchrotron diffraction studies of the …

The electrostatic levitation system, including its history and development, and techniques for
non-contact thermophysical property measurements (density, ratio of isobaric heat capacity …

Crystallization is one of the most important phase transformations of first order. In the case of
metals and alloys, the liquid phase is the parent phase of materials production. The …