Announcements

The “Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals” Section of Metals (ISSN: 2075-4701) covers the field of transition and rare metal extraction, purification, deformation, physical and mechanical behaviors, characterization, shaping, modeling, materials design, and medium- and high-entropy alloys. The “Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals” Section aims to foster a better understanding of microstructural design and control, including the opportunities that the nanoscale field offers, allowing competition with other forming technologies in the development of high-performance materials for applications where extreme conditions are expected.

As all the articles published in our journal are in an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full texts. We welcome you to read the top ten selected papers published in 2022 listed below:

“Cryogenic-Mechanical Properties and Applications of Multiple-Basis-Element Alloys”
by Kaixuan Cui, Peter K. Liaw and Yong Zhang
Metals 2022, 12(12), 2075; https://doi.org/10.3390/met12122075
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/12/2075

“Anisotropic Elastic and Thermal Properties of M2InX (M = Ti, Zr and X = C, N) Phases: A First-Principles Calculation”
by Bo Li, Yonghua Duan, Mingjun Peng, Li Shen and Huarong Qi
Metals 2022, 12(7), 1111; https://doi.org/10.3390/met12071111
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/7/1111

“An Overview of Highly Porous Titanium Processed via Metal Injection Molding in Combination with the Space Holder Method”
by Francisco Cavilha Neto, Mauricio Vitor Giaretton, Guilherme Oliveira Neves, Claudio Aguilar, Marcelo Tramontin Souza, Cristiano Binder and Aloísio Nelmo Klein
Metals 2022, 12(5), 783; https://doi.org/10.3390/met12050783
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/5/783

“Compositional Dependence of Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in Fe-, Co-, and Cu-Alloyed Ni-Mn-Ga”
by Michal Rameš, Vít Kopecký and Oleg Heczko
Metals 2022, 12(1), 133; https://doi.org/10.3390/met12010133
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/1/133

“First-Principles Study on the Elastic Mechanical Properties and Anisotropies of Gold–Copper Intermetallic Compounds”
by Jian Wang, Hongbo Qin, Junfu Chen, Daoguo Yang and Guoqi Zhang
Metals 2022, 12(6), 959; https://doi.org/10.3390/met12060959
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/6/959

“Rejuvenation-to-Relaxation Transition Induced by Elastostatic Compression and Its Effect on Deformation Behavior in a Zr-Based Bulk Metallic Glass”
by Jingxian Cui, Qiang Luo, Siyi Di, Zhengguo Zhang and Baolong Shen
Metals 2022, 12(2), 282; https://doi.org/10.3390/met12020282
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/2/282

“Thermal Stability of Microstructure of High-Entropy Alloys Based on Refractory Metals Hf, Nb, Ta, Ti, V, and Zr”
by Tomáš Vlasák, Jakub Čížek, Oksana Melikhova, František Lukáč, Dalibor Preisler, Miloš Janeček, Petr Harcuba, Mariia Zimina and Ondřej Srba
Metals 2022, 12(3), 394; https://doi.org/10.3390/met12030394
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/3/394

“Recent Advances in Magnetostrictive Tb-Dy-Fe Alloys”
by Zijing Yang, Jiheng Li, Zhiguang Zhou, Jiaxin Gong, Xiaoqian Bao and Xuexu Gao
Metals 2022, 12(2), 341; https://doi.org/10.3390/met12020341
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/2/341

“Study on the Surface Modification of Nanostructured Ti Alloys and Coarse-Grained Ti Alloys”
by Hsuan-Kai Lin, Yi-Hong Cheng, Guan-Yuan Li, Ying-Chi Chen, Piotr Bazarnik, Jessica Muzy, Yi Huang and Terence G. Langdon
Metals 2022, 12(6), 948; https://doi.org/10.3390/met12060948
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/6/948

“Characterizing Changes in Grain Growth, Mechanical Properties, and Transformation Properties in Differently Sintered and Annealed Binder-Jet 3D Printed 14M Ni–Mn–Ga Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys”
by Aaron Acierno, Amir Mostafaei, Jakub Toman, Katerina Kimes, Mirko Boin, Robert C. Wimpory, Ville Laitinen, Andrey Saren, Kari Ullakko and Markus Chmielus
Metals 2022, 12(5), 724; https://doi.org/10.3390/met12050724
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/12/5/724