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Emergence in Condensed Matter and Quantum Gravity A Nontechnical Review
This book surveys the science at a semipopular, Scientific American-level. It is even-handed with regard to competing directions of research and...
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Lateral Thinking—The Holographic Principle in Condensed Matter
A two-way flow of ideas has been a boon to physicists in recent years. Condensed-matter theorists have offered their input into the puzzles of...
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Thermophysical Properties of Titanium Alloys
Titanium alloys combine low mass densities and high strength. The high-temperature stability makes them important materials for aerospace and space...
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ESA’s Materials Science in Space Programme
Over the past decades, the European Space Agency (ESA) has developed and employed a suite of reduced-gravity platforms that enables the scientific...
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Levitation Research in Japan
Research activities of the Japanese team in the THERMOLAB-project are reviewed. The Japanese team has mainly performed thermophysical property...
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Thermophysical Properties of Semiconductors
The thermophysical properties of melts of samples from the Si-Ge system were measured in the Electromagnetic Levitator on board of the International...
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Atomic Structure in Metallic Liquids
Liquids of metals are the major substances in the industrial manufacturing and fundamental scientific research. However, the determination of their...
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Metallurgy in Space Recent Results from ISS
This book presents experimental work conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) in order to characterize metals and alloys in the liquid...
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Emergence in Condensed Matter Physics
Phase transitions such as melting and boiling are the paradigm for emergence in physics. They are the domain of condensed-matter physics. Researchers...
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Emergence of Space
For a subject that is supposed to unify physics, quantum gravity is notorious for its heated debates. But in the past decade, researchers have found...
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Introduction
The universe is not just a formless blob of particles. It has structures on multiple scales. Why? You might expect vast numbers of particles to...
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Influence of Convection on Phase Selection
Space electromagnetic levitation processing allows investigations on the influence of convection on phase selection by leveraging the ability to...
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The Electromagnetic Levitator Facility (EML) on Board the ISS
The electromagnetic levitator (EML) is a materials science research facility for contactless processing of conductive samples between 6 and 8 mm in...
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New Material Developments/High-Entropy Alloys
Multi-elementary concentrated high-entropy alloys (HEA) and more generally complex concentrated alloys (CCA) have turned from their discovery in 2004...
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The Measurement of Density, Surface Tension, and Viscosity of Metallic Liquids by the Discharge Crucible Method
Thermophysical properties such as density, viscosity, and surface tension are fundamentally important for many high-temperature metallurgical...
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Measurement of Thermophysical Properties Using the ISS-EML
The experimental methods applied in the electromagnetic levitator ISS-EML on board the International Space Station (ISS) have been developed and...
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Modeling of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows in Electromagnetic Levitation
Electromagnetic levitation provides a containerless processing environment which enables a wide variety of studies on the fundamental properties and...
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Electrical Resistivity Measurements on the International Space Station for the Studies of Dynamics in Metallic Liquids
In addition to its fundamental importance, the electrical resistivity plays a very important role in the studies of various types of thermal...
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Thermophysical Properties of Steels
Modelling of casting of steels needs very reliable thermophysical data. It has been known that impurities as, for example, oxygen or sulfur in steel...
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An Overview of Ground-Based Electrostatic Levitation
Electrostatic levitation (ESL) is a containerless processing method used to levitate small, typically several millimeters in diameter, samples for...