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To meet these requirements, the wetting behaviors of liquid sodium with nine transition metals were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The results show that metals such as zinc and gold, which react with sodium to form intermetallic compounds at the interface, exhibit superior wettability. Followed by the metals that have strong interatomic interactions even though they do not react with sodium or dissolve each other, such as cobalt, nickel and copper, while the wettability of these systems tends to be poor at low temperatures. Systems that do not react with each other or have strong interatomic affinities proved to be the most difficult to wet. Notably, metals with the closest-packed crystal structures of fcc and hcp generally have better wettability than those with a bcc structure. 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