The recent progress and future prospects for ultra-centrifugal sedimentation in solids are described in this article, mainly for equipment, miscible systems and compounds. Almost 90% ultracentrifugation experiments have been performed on the 1st and 2nd high-temperature ultracentrifuge which typically operate at temperatures below 500 ℃ and maximum centrifugal acceleration up to 1,000,000 g. The strong gravitational and temperature fields induce atomic-scale graded structure, grain growth and refinement, voids accumulation caused by the atomic sedimentation in miscible systems, while new structures, properties and substances are produced in some compounds. A new cantilever high-temperature ultracentrifuge with a temperature of up to 1200 ℃ is under construction at Zhejiang University, making it possible to simulate the composition, microstructure and property evolution of superalloys in the operating environment of aircraft engines.