Some Issues in Liquid Metals Research

Abstract

The ten articles [1–10] included in this Special Issue on "Liquid Metals" do not intend to comprehensively cover this extensive field, but, rather, to highlight recent discoveries that have greatly broadened the scope of technological applications of these materials. Improvements in understanding the physics of liquid metals are, to a large extent, due to the powerful theoretical tools in the hands of scientists, either semi-empirical [1,5,6] or ab initio (molecular dynamics, see [7]). ; This work was supported by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement 280464, project "High-frequency Electro-Magnetic technologies for advanced processing of ceramic matrix composites and graphite expansion" (HELM) and "Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad" through project MAT2011-25029.