Structure and Properties of Crystalline and Amorphous Alloys-Part II
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 4187
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Interests: materials engineering; amorphous and nanocrystalline materials; functional materials; nanomaterials; metallic glasses; biomaterials; computer modelling of amorphous structure
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Dear Colleagues,
Metallic alloys are used in a wide variety of applications, from the structural alloys used in buildings, automobiles, machines, factories to functional alloys used in medical, electronic, or sport devices. In some cases, a combination of metals and metalloids may reduce the overall cost of a material, while maintaining usable properties. The combination of metals and non-metals adds synergistic properties to the constituent metal elements, such as density, conductivity, corrosion resistance, hardness or tensile strength. It is generally known that the preparation of alloys with expected structures (e.g., amorphous, nanocrystalline, quasicrystalline, crystalline) is difficult and requires the selection of cooling rates of the liquid alloys, annealing, or sintering conditions. The formation of amorphous, nanocrystalline, or quasicrystalline structures allows us to achieve physicochemical properties better than those of their crystalline counterparts.
Special Issue - Part II will continue to focus on research papers that explore metallic materials based on multi-component alloys with amorphous, nanocrystalline, quasicrystalline, and crystalline structures. Papers on supercooled alloys, as well as nanostructured materials, will also be considered. Papers involving construction and functional alloys with modifications of surfaces, in terms of mechanical, electrical, magnetic, thermal, and corrosion properties and structural analysis and modelling, will also be included.
We invite you to contribute full papers, reviews, or communications to this Special Issue. In all cases, the papers must demonstrate originality and be relevant to the scope of this issue.
Prof. Dr. Rafał Babilas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multi-component alloys
- crystalline, nanocrystaline, and quasicrystalline materials
- conventional and bulk metallic glasses
- functional and smart materials
- corrosion and electrochemical measurements
- electrical and magnetic properties
- mechanical properties
- structural characterization and modeling
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