This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of wetting phenomena which take place at high temperatures. It relies in part on the chapter “Introduction to interfaces and diffusion”, elsewhere in this volume, as a foundation. The topics addressed include: definitions of intrinsic wetting and associated quantities, wetting anomalies due to diffusion and anisotropy of solid/fluid interfaces, wetting hysteresis on real surfaces, and orders of magnitude of the energies that determine wetting in metal/metal, metal/ceramic and glass systems. At the end of this chapter some examples of evolving contact between liquid and solid metal illustrate the complexity of wetting phenomena at high temperature.
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Chatain, D., Ghetta, V. (2008). Some Aspects of Wetting at High Temperature. In: Ghetta, V., Gorse, D., Mazière, D., Pontikis, V. (eds) Materials Issues for Generation IV Systems. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8422-5_21
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