Meet the editor

Associate Professor Rita Khanna holds a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics and has extensive research experience in the fields of diffuse X-ray scattering, disordered materials, atomistic computer modeling and simulations, high-temperature metallurgical processes, environmentally sustainable waste management, nanoscale carbons, foams, structures along with extensive wettability investigations on carbon/molten iron, carbon/slag

 interactions, carbon-based oxide refractories, and computer modeling at high temperatures. She has worked at several leading institutes: the Nuclear Research Centre, Jülich, Germany; the Department of Atomic Energy, India; the Australian National University, Canberra; Sydney University; and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She has over 153 publications to her credit: 1 edited book, 12 book chapters, 112 journal and 28 conference papers.

Contents

*by Rita Khanna*

*by Naofumi Hiraoka*

*by Kelvii Wei Guo*

Fluid Dynamics

Multicomponent Alloys

*Lăcrămioara Popa*

An Extreme Wettability Scenario

*by Syed Taqvi and Ghada Bassioni*

*by Qiaoli Lin, Ran Sui and Weiyuan Yu*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 7**

**Chapter 3 25**

**Chapter 4 45**

**Chapter 5 65**

**Chapter 6 81**

**Chapter 7 107**

**Chapter 8 121**

*by Cristina Elena Dinu-Pîrvu, Roxana-Elena Avrămescu, Mihaela Violeta Ghica and* 

Introductory Chapter: Factors Influencing the Wettability of Nanomaterials

On the Friction of Oil-Impregnated Sintered Bearings

Wetting of Al Alloys for Hot Dipping Coating Process

Mold Steel: Hydrophilic-to-Hydrophobic Transition

Understanding Wettability through Zeta Potential Measurements

Influence of Al2O3 Processing on the Microtexture and Morphology of

Interfacial Phenomena in the Synthesis Process of Barium Sulfate Particles Precipitated in a Lobed Inner Cylinder Taylor-Couette Flow Reactor: Effects of

*by Lu Liu, Guang Li, Xiaogang Yang, Xiani Huang and Chenyang Xue*

Dependence of Surface Tension and Viscosity on Temperature in

*by Ivaldo Leão Ferreira, José Adilson de Castro and Amauri Garcia*

Natural and Artificial Superwettable Surfaces-Superficial Phenomena:
