Rapid solidification of binary Cu-22%Sn peritectic alloys and Cu-5%Sn-5%Ni-5%Ag quaternary alloys was accomplished by glass fluxing, drop tube and melt spinning methods. The undercooled, by glass fluxing method, Cu-22%Sn peritectic alloy was composed of (Cu) and (Cu 41 Sn 11 ) phases. If rapidly solidified in a drop tube, the alloy phase constitution changed from (Cu) and (Cu 41 Sn 11 ) phases into a single supersaturated (Cu) phase with the reducing of droplet diameter, and the maximum solubility of Sn in (Cu) phase extended to 22%. The Cu-5%Sn-5%Ni-5%Ag quaternary alloy was composed of (Cu) and (Ag) phases under the containerless processing condition in a drop tube, and the solute microsegregation of (Cu) phase was obvious. When the Cu-5%Sn-5%Ni-5%Ag quaternary alloy was solidified by melt spinning method, microsegregation was suppressed and solute trapping occurred. The experimental results show that the microstructures of primary (Cu) phase in the two alloys transfer from coarse dendrites into equiaxed grains with the increase of cooling rate and undercooling, which is accompanied by the grain refinement effect.Cu-based alloy, rapid solidification, dendritic growth, solute trapping PACS: 81.05. Bx, 81.30.Fb, 68.70.+w Rapid solidification of metals and alloys has been a long-term research subject in the fields of condensed matter physics and materials science [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Studying the rapid crystal growth is of great value to reveal the relationship between solidification microstructures and experimental conditions. Such relationship has important influence on the process optimization of crystal growth and the development of new materials.Rapid solidification can be accomplished by rapid quenching or undercooling technique. The glass fluxing method and drop tube technique, which would avoid the contamination from crucible walls and remove the heterogeneous nuclei, are important approaches to achieve the high undercooling of metallic melts. The melt spinning method ejects metallic melts onto the rapidly spinning roller by high pressure gas flow, and thereby the alloy melts can be be rapidly solidified due to the efficient convection heat transfer between the melt and roller.Dendrite is the most common microstructure during crystal growth. With the development of crystal growth research, the investigation of dendrite growth has also made good progress. Lipton et al. [9,10] established the LKT theory, which describes the inter-relationship of "undercooling-dendritic growth velocity-dendritic tip radius" by considering the solutal and thermal diffusion near the dendritic tip and the marginal stability of solid/liquid interface. Boettinger et al. [11] extended LKT to LKT/BCT model based on the solute trapping effect. Becker et al. [12] undertook an atomistic calculation of the magnitude and anisotropy of the interfacial free energy to analyze the relationship between composition and dendrite tip orientation. Schulze [13] has adopted an atomistic growth model that uses a kinetic Monte-Carlo tech...