Wetting in the ThO2/Me (Me = Ce, Al, U) systems: an example of the liquid phase properties role in reactive wetting

Preface to the HTC 2012 special issue

“…The first covers the topic of wetting of ceramics by silicon alloys [1], the second discusses our current understanding of dissolutive wetting [2], and the third explores wetting and joining of high temperature materials based on diborides [3]. The section containing full manuscripts opens with a paper describing a new software tool for simulating interface morphology [4], followed by a series of papers on interface thermodynamics [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], and non-reactive and reactive wetting systems [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. This is followed by a series of papers exploring the use of sessile drop experiments, reactive wetting, and applied joining and processing.…”