Structure and Properties of Amorphous Metallic Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 6340
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Amorphous alloys have stimulated widespread research enthusiasm for a long time because of their technological promise for structural and functional applications and scientific importance in understanding glass formation, relaxation and crystallization. These alloys represent a novel class of metallic materials with extraordinary mechanical, physical and chemical properties including extreme strength and hardness at room temperature and high flexibility at high temperature, excellent soft magnetic properties, attractive corrosion resistance, and excellent catalytic performance, etc. While more and more amorphous alloys have been developed and investigated in recent years, the local structure of amorphous alloys has been a long-standing mystery, due to the complex topological and chemical short-to-medium range order and the heterogeneous nature. How atomic packing changes with composition, temperature, and pressure, and more significantly, how the short-to-medium range order determines the properties of amorphous alloys, are unresolved questions, which become a major impediment for their wider industrialized applications.
This Special Issue aims to present the latest research related to the short-to-medium range order of amorphous alloys, and its correlation with mechanical, physical and mechanical properties.
Prof. Dr. Qiang Luo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- glass formation
- local structure
- heterogeneity
- deformation
- corrosion and catalysis
- magnetic properties
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