Interfacial Physical Chemistry of High-Temperature Melts

This English translation of a well-known Japanese book covers interfacial physicochemistry in materials science, especially for iron- and steelmaking processes. Interfacial Physical Chemistry of High-Temperature Melts bridges the gap between the basics and applications of physicochemistry.

The book begins with an overview of the fundamentals of interfacial physical chemistry and discusses surface tension, describing the derivation of important equations to guide readers to a deep understanding of the phenomenon. The book then goes on to introduce interfacial properties of high-temperature melts, especially the Marangoni effect, and discusses applications to materials processing at high temperature focusing on recent research results by the author and the co-workers.

This book is aimed at researchers, graduate students, and professionals in materials processing.

Video clips of in-situ observation including experiments under microgravity condition and x-ray observation are available for download on the publisher's website to allow for a deeper understanding.

1 Introduction. 2. Fundamentals of Treating the Interface. 3. Interfacial Properties of High-Temperature Melts. 4. Interfacial Phenomena of High-Temperature Melts and Materials Processing.

Prof. Kusuhiro Mukai was a professor emeritus at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan and Northeastern University, China. He received his Ph.D. from Nagoya University (1968) and became an associate professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (1969). He was a guest professor at University of Toronto, Canada (1985) and Imperial College London, UK (2005). He was a professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology from 1986 to 2004. His research area was high-temperature physical chemistry.

Assoc. Prof. Taishi Matsushita has been an associate professor in the Department of Materials and Manufacturing, School of Engineering, Jönköping University, Sweden since 2012. He received his Ph.D. from Kyushu Institute of Technology (2003) and became a senior researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden in the same year. He was given the title Docent (corresponding to associate professor) from KTH in 2008. His research area is high-temperature physical chemistry.