Application of Correlative Microscopy in Metallurgical Research
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 7897
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last few decades, numerous studies have been performed to elucidate how the structure–property relationships of metals and alloys are affected by composition, compositional inhomogeneities, impurities, and grain boundaries. These relationships involve a complex interplay of different phases and a detailed atomic-resolution characterization of them is still challenging due to either the limitation of spatial resolution or the inability to quantify light interstitial elements, such as hydrogen and oxygen, during the determination of the atomic structure. To overcome the restrictions arising from individual characterization methods, more progressive efforts require the development of correlative analysis, which confers higher mass resolving power (∆m/m) for light elements (small atomic number, Z) for standard analytical spectroscopic techniques with a combination of high-resolution electron microscopies. This Special Issue will publish work concerning recent progress and trends in the area of correlative analytical methods for characterizing crystal and microstructures along with quantitative compositional measurements from atomic resolution up to the laboratory bulk sample dimension of metals and alloys utilizing a combination of multiple characterizing tools (electron microscopy, atom probe tomography, etc.).
Prof. Dr. Yoon-Jun Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metals
- alloys
- segregation
- crystal imperfections
- microstructure
- advanced electron microscopy
- tomography
- multi-scale analysis
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