Combinatorial Investigations of Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Structural Integrity of Metals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2022) | Viewed by 8697
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unveiling the relationships among the composition, microstructure, processing, and properties of alloys is crucial not only to achieve a fundamental understanding of existing material systems but also for the discovery of novel alloys with unprecedented properties. Combinatorial materials science is an emerging field and has facilitated the composition–microstructure–processing-property mapping of various alloys. Furthermore, with the help of the modern progress of the accelerated measurement schemes, it is now possible to efficiently acquire mechanical, thermal, electrical, and physical/chemical properties of a broad range of alloys.
Many of the advanced alloys, such as metallic glasses, high-entropy alloys, superalloys, self-healing alloys, and shape memory alloys, consist of multiple constituent elements. As the unexplored composition and microstructural regions of the multicomponent alloys are immense, the use of the combinatorial and high-throughput approach would allow the rapid development of novel alloys. In this Special Issue, original research articles or critical review articles on the following topics shall be published:
Combinatorial experimental or computational studies of alloys;
Novel experimental techniques for rapid characterizations of advanced alloys;
Investigation of advanced alloys under various processing and environmental conditions.
I am glad to invite you to submit your work to the Special Issue, “Combinatorial Investigations of Alloys”.
Prof. Dongwoo Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- combinatorial materials science
- high-throughput experiments
- multicomponent alloys
- properties
- thin films
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