Advances in Secondary Metallurgy
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 412
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Interests: archaeometallurgy; heritage science; metal alloys; chemical composition; microstructure; heat treatment; corrosion products; restoration solutions
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Interests: microstructural characterization; mechanical properties; heat treatments; aluminum alloys; surface engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal alloys play a pivotal role in society mainly, due to the unique functionalities they confer to engineered products in several industrial fields. Nowadays, the international community is faced with the challenge of developing more sustainable processes that consume less energy, thus reducing the emissions of CO2 in the atmosphere. In this regard, eco-friendly metallurgy can be achieved by improvements to the existing processes or by incremental recycling of resources/waste/by-products. Increasing attention is devoted to critical raw materials (CRMs) (e.g., antimony, erbium, europium, silicon, strontium and titanium) due to the high risk associated with their supply.
The aim of this Special Issue “Advances in Secondary Metallurgy” is to collect full papers, communications and review articles that highlight the recent achievements in sustainable metallurgy, with a special focus on advanced processes and on the relationship between the microstructural features and mechanical behaviour of metal alloys obtained by secondary products.
We are pleased to invite you to submit original research articles for this Special Issue to be published in the open access journal Applied Sciences. High-quality papers from researchers in the scientific community and industry are welcome.
Dr. Chiara Soffritti
Dr. Mattia Merlin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- secondary metallurgy
- processes
- CRMs
- microstructure
- mechanical properties
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