Stephen K Wilke, Abdulrahman Al-Rubkhi, Chihiro Koyama, Takehiko Ishikawa, Hirohisa Oda, Brian Topper, Elizabeth M Tsekrekas, Doris Möncke, Oliver L G Alderman, Vrishank Menon, Jared Rafferty, Emma Clark, Alan L Kastengren, Chris J Benmore, Jan Ilavsky, Jörg Neuefeind, Shinji Kohara, Michael SanSoucie, Brandon Phillips, Richard Weber
The relationships between materials processing and structure can vary between terrestrial and reduced gravity environments. As one case study, we compare the nonequilibrium melt processing of a rare-earth titanate, nominally 83TiO2 -17Nd2 O3 , and the structure of its glassy and crystalline products. Density and thermal expansion for the liquid, supercooled liquid, and glass are measured over 300-1850 °C using the Electrostatic Levitation Furnace (ELF) in microgravity, and two replicate density measurements were reproducible to within 0...
March 6, 2024: NPJ Microgravity