In September 2000, the University of Bayreuth, Germany, hosted the
Fourth International Meeting on Thermodi?usion (IMT4).
TheIMTconferenceswerebornfromtheideaofbringingtogetherresearchers
in the ?eld of thermodi?usion. Under the auspices of the European
Group of Research in
Thermodi?usion(EGRT)theconferenceseriesstartedin1994with IMT1 in
Toulouse and has been continued every other year with IMT2 (Pau,
1996), IMT3 (Mons, 1998), and IMT4 (Bayreuth, 2000). The next
conference, IMT5, will be held in 2002 in Lyngby, Denmark.
Thermodi?usion, alsocalledthermaldi?usionortheLudwig-Sorete?ect, -
scribes the coupling between a temperature gradient and a resulting
mass ?ux. Although the e?ect was already discovered in the 19th
century by Ludwig and Soret, it has gained growing interest during
the last years due to improved -
perimentaltechniqueslikestate-of-the-artthermogravitationalcolumns,
modern opticalmethods, ?owchannels, andmicrogravityexperiments,
tomentiononlya few. We are still far from a detailed microscopic
picture, but analytical theories have been improved and the
availability of fast computers and e?cient al-
rithmsfornonequilibriummoleculardynamicssimulationshasprovidedvaluable
input from the theoretical side.
TheIMTconferencescoverallaspectsofthermodi?usionfromfundamentals to
new applications. Traditionally, the focus has been on the ?uid
state, ra- ing from mixtures of simple liquids to more complex
systems such as critical mixtures, electrolytes, polymers,
colloidal dispersions, or magnetic ?uids. IMT4 tried to widen the
scope by including a plenary lecture about thermodi?usion in ionic
solids. Scienti?c input comes from diverse disciplines such as
physics, chemistry, engineering, and geophysics. Sadly, Leo Kempers
passed away while this book was being prepared. Many
ofushavelostafriendandrespectedcolleague.Hismanuscripthasbeenbrought
into its ?nal state by A. Shapiro, whom we want to thank
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