1. Measurement of thermophysical properties of liquid metallic alloys in a ground- and microgravity based research programme — theThermoLab project

   • Ragnhild Aune
   • Livio Battezzati
   • Bernard Vinet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 10

2. Surface tension and viscosity of industrial alloys from parabolic flight experiments — Results of theThermoLab project

   • Ragnhild Aune
   • Livio Battezzati
   • Bernard Vinet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 14

3. Tailoring of dendritic microstructure in solidification processing by crucible vibration/rotation

   • B. Billia
   • H. Nguyen Thi
   • C. W. Lan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 19

4. Columnar-EquiaxedTransition inSolidification processing: The ESA-MAP CETSOL project

   • Bernard Billia
   • Charles-André Gandin
   • Marie-Danielle Dupouy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 20 - 25

5. Optical properties of silicon micro and nanocrystals

   • A. Boisjoli
   • J. -C. Leclerc
   • S. Raymond

   OriginalPaper Pages: 26 - 30

6. Gelation of hybrid aerogels in parabolic flights and on the ISS

   • Sabine Brück
   • Michael Reuβ
   • Lorenz Ratke

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 34

7. Experimental study of radial segregation caused by weak convection

   • Torbjörn Carlberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 39

8. Solutal configuration during coupled two-phase [α (Al) + θ-Al₂Cu] planar univariant eutetic growth in Al-Cu-(Ag, Si) ternary eutetic alloys

   • J. De Wilde
   • L. Froyen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 40 - 44

9. Univariant Eutetic growth in ternary Al-Cu-Ag-alloys

   • A. Drevermann
   • U. Hecht
   • S. Rex

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 49

10. Surface tension, phase separation and solidification of undercooled Cu-Co

    • I. Egry
    • D. Herlach
    • D. Chatain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 50 - 54

11. Role of sample size in the nucleation kinetics of phase transformations in steel alloys

    • David J. Fair
    • Rakesh Venkatesh
    • Douglas M. Matson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 58

12. Macrosegregation in binary AlSi7 alloys resulting from the application of time dependent magnetic fields

    • Marc Hainke
    • Johannes Dagner
    • Georg Müller

    OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 63

13. Ordering and behavior of fine particles in plasmas under gravity and microgravity conditions

    • Yasuaki Hayashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 64 - 66

14. Preparation of TbFe₂ giant magnetostrictive alloy under microgravity conditions

    • S. Kano
    • Y. Matsumura
    • H. Uchida

    OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 70

15. Excellent compositional homogeneity in In_0.3Ga_0.7As crystals grown by the traveling liquiduszone (TLZ) method

    • Kyoichi Kinoshita
    • Yasuyuki Ogata
    • Shinichi Yoda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 73

16. Unexpected microgravity effect during the self-organization of silicalite-1 nanoslabs

    • Christine E. A. Kirschhock
    • Sebastien P. B. Kremer
    • Johan A. Martens

    OriginalPaper Pages: 74 - 78

17. Effect of gravity on InGaSb crystal growth

    • Noriaki Murakami
    • Koji Arafune
    • Yasuhiro Hayakawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 83

18. Effect of magnetic field on metallurgical structure of magnetostrictive alloys solidified unidirectionally in microgravity

    • Takeshi Okutani
    • Yoshinori Nakata
    • Mikito Mamiya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 84 - 88

19. Microstructure and magnetic properties of rare earth Nd-Fe system alloys produced by containerless processing

    • S. Ozawa
    • S. Sugiyama
    • K. Kuribayashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 93

20. Ground-based thermophysical property measurements of supercooled and liquid platinum-group metals by electrostatic levitation

    • P. -F. Paradis
    • T. Ishikawa
    • S. Yoda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 94 - 98

21. MICAST — The effect of magnetically controlled fluid flow on microstructure evolution in cast technical Al-alloys

    • L. Ratke
    • S. Steinbach
    • H. Gerke-Cantow

    OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 103

22. Determination of butanol distribution on salol-butanol crystals using Micro Raman Spectroscopy

    • Taro Shimaoka
    • Hiroyuki Kagi
    • Yuko Inatomi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 104 - 106

23. In-situ observation of solid-liquid interface during directional solidification of succinonitrile and pivalic acid

    • A. P. Shpak
    • O. P. Fedorov
    • O. V. Shuleshova

    OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 110

24. ARTEX — In situ observation of directional solidification of binary aluminium alloys on TEXUS

    • S. Steinbach
    • L. Ratke

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 115

25. Directional solidification of cellular arrays in transparent alloys

    • L. Sturz
    • H. -J. Diepers
    • S. Rex

    OriginalPaper Pages: 116 - 119

26. Diffusion experiments in liquid Sn-Bi and Al-Ni systems with a stable density layering using the FOTON shear cell under 1g conditions

    • Shinsuke Suzuki
    • Kurt-Helmut Kraatz
    • Günter Frohberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 120 - 126

27. Shear cell development for diffusion experiments in FOTON-Satellite missions and on the ground with consideration of shear-induced convection

    • Shinsuke Suzuki
    • Kurt-Helmut Kraatz
    • Günter Frohberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 132

28. In situ characterization of interface-microstructure dynamics in 3D-Directional Solidification of model transparent alloys

    • Rohit Trivedi
    • Nathalie Bergeon
    • Cédric Weiss

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 137

29. Phase selection in containerless solidification of FeSi₂ during free fall in drop tube

    • K. Yamamoto
    • S. Ozawa
    • K. Kuribayashi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 138 - 142

30. Directional solidification of dendritic microstructures in microgravity and with forced melt flow

    • G. Zimmermann
    • A. Weiss

    OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 147

31. Thermal management with self-rewetting fluids

    • Yoshiyuki Abe
    • Akira Iwaski
    • Kotaro Tanaka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 148 - 152

32. A novel methodology to study shape and surface tension of drops in Electric Fields

    • A. Bateni
    • S. S. Susnar
    • A. W. Neumann

    OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 157

33. A macroscopic solids-stabilized emulsion droplet model in reduced gravity

    • Raymond Chiang
    • Janet A. W. Elliott

    OriginalPaper Pages: 158 - 163

34. Convection and heat transfer experiments in supercritical fluid under microgravity: From MIR to ISS

    • V. M. Emelianov
    • A. K. Lednev
    • Y. Garrabos

    OriginalPaper Pages: 164 - 169

35. Thermocapillary effects on low-g Pool Boiling from microheater arrays of various aspect ratio

    • Christopher D. Henry
    • Jungho Kim

    OriginalPaper Pages: 170 - 175

36. Effect of ambient fluid flow upon onset of oscillatory thermocapillary convection in half-zone liquid bridge

    • Motoki Irikura
    • Yoshihiko Arakawa
    • Hiroshi Kawamura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 176 - 180

37. Microgravity performance of micro pulsating heat pipes

    • Junjie Gu
    • Masahiro Kawaji
    • Ryosuke Futamata

    OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 185

38. Analysis of amplitude- and phase-frequency characteristics of oscillating bubble system with closed measuring cell

    • Jürgen Krägel
    • Volodymyr I. Kovalchuk
    • Reinhard Miller

    OriginalPaper Pages: 186 - 190

39. ARGES: Radial segregation and helical instabilities in metal halide lamps studied under microgravity conditions in the International Space Station

    • Gerrit Kroesen
    • Marco Haverlag
    • André Kuipers

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 195

40. Results of the Facility for Adsorption and Surface Tension (FAST) experiments onboard STS-107, in the framework of the project FASES

    • Libero Liggieri
    • Francesca Ravera
    • Alexander Makievski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 196 - 200

41. Adsorption properties of C₁₀E₈ at water/ hexane interface investigated onboard STS-107, by the FAST facility

    • Libero Liggieri
    • Francesca Ravera
    • Alberto Passerone

    OriginalPaper Pages: 201 - 204

42. STS-107 OV-102 mission FAST experiment: Slow surface relaxation at the solution-air interface

    • G. Loglio
    • P. Pandolfini
    • L. Liggieri

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 209

43. Accumulation of solid particles in convective flows

    • D. V. Lyubimov
    • T. P. Lyubimova
    • A. V. Straube

    OriginalPaper Pages: 210 - 214

44. Rheological studies with spherically shaped thin liquid films

    • Alexander V. Makievski
    • Volodymyr I. Kovalchuk
    • Reinhard Miller

    OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 218

45. Measurements of advancing and receding contact angles of water onPMMA andCR-39 at various g-levels

    • Nicolas Mireault
    • Gilles Abel
    • Guy Ross

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 223

46. ISS experiments for the clarification of boiling and two-phase flow in microgravity and for the development of high-performance space cold plates

    • Haruhiko Ohta
    • Atsushi Baba
    • Haruo Kawasaki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 224 - 230

47. Contact angle hysteresis on smooth and homogenous surfaces in gravitational fields

    • P. Rahimi
    • C. A. Ward

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 235

48. Simulation of particle agglomeration and fragmentation in a low gravity environment

    • C. Keith Scott
    • Wen Chao Chen
    • Kenneth Oxorn

    OriginalPaper Pages: 236 - 241

49. Bubble — bubbles — boiling

    • Johannes Straub

    OriginalPaper Pages: 242 - 248

50. Shear-induced structure of concentrated suspensions of non-Brownian particles in a microgravity environment

    • Anatoliy L. Strybulevych
    • John H. Page

    OriginalPaper Pages: 249 - 252