This book presents experimental work conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) in order to characterize metals and alloys in the liquid state. The internationally recognized authors present and discuss experiments performed in microgravity that enabled the study of the relevant volume and surface related properties free of the restrictions of a gravity-based environment. The collection serves also as a handbook of space experiments using electromagnetic levitation techniques. A summary of recent results provides an overview of the wealth of space experiment data, which will ignite further research activities and inspire academics and industrial research departments for their continuous development.
Biografie (Hans-Jörg Fecht)
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Fecht is head of the Materials Division of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Ulm, director of the center for Micro- and Nanomaterials at Ulm, and also leads a group at the Institute of Nanotechnology of Research Center Karlsruhe. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science in 1984 from the University of Saarbrücken, then spent several years in the USA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and CIT in Pasadena. He returned to Germany to professorships in Augsburg, Berlin, and since 1997, in Ulm. He has received the G.W. Leibniz award of the German Research Foundation (DFG), and has (co-)authored more than 200 technical papers. He is co-organizer of several European conferences and on several European advisory boards.