Preface to the special section on high-temperature capillarity

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This special section contains a selection of papers resulting from presentations made during the international conference, HTC-2015. The 8th High Temperature Capillarity Conference (HTC-2015) took place in Bad-Herrenalb, Germany from 17 to 21 May 2015. HTC-2015 brought together about 100 participants who shared new developments and experiences in the continuously advancing field of high-temperature capillarity. HTC-2015 followed the High Temperature Capillarity conferences held in Eilat, Israel (2012) [1]; Athens, Greece (2009) [2]; Alicante, Spain (2007); Sanremo, Italy (2004); Kurashiki, Japan (2000); Krakow, Poland (1997) and Smolenice, Slovakia (1994). Information about HTC conferences can be found at http://​www.​htcconference.​org/​. This conference is held every 3 years and serves as a unique venue for specialists and researchers in different areas of materials science as well as joining technology (welding, brazing, sintering) to discuss and exchange their ideas with each other. …