Phase Transformations and Physical Properties of Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 5822
Special Issue Editor
Interests: intermetallics; high-entropy alloys; light-weight alloys; electron crystallography; characterization; structure solution; X-ray diffraction; transmission electron microscopy
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Dear Colleagues,
The concept of classical metallurgy defines alloys as containing additional (to major constituent) elements which allow the attainment of improved physical properties. Using this approach, new steels (as an example) were developed, increasing the work temperature, corrosion resistance, achieving better strength/ductility combination, etc. Lately, the novel concept of high-entropy alloys has revolutionized the field of metallurgy. Instead of one major constituent and minor impurities, equiatomic or near-equiatomic compositions of a minimum of five elements are used, attaining improved physical properties due to local disorder in the formed solid solutions. Regardless of the concept applied for the preparation of the alloy, the existence or lack of phase transformations have always been at the center of researchers’ attention, since this dictates the possibility of application. As a function of composition, pressure, and/or temperature, physical properties may change dramatically due to the occurring phase transformation. The nature of the phase transformation might vary: order–disorder, appearance or dissolution of intermetallics, etc. Regardless of the nature of the phase transformation, they always induce a change of physical properties that may be wanted or unwanted depending on the subsequent usage.
In this Issue we invite articles containing experimental research and/or theoretical calculations, reporting on the phase transformations occurring in alloys (both conventional and high-entropy alloys). The emphasis of this Issue is on the corner-stone of materials science, namely, how phase transformations influence the physical properties of the alloys.
Prof. Dr. Louisa Meshi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- alloy
- characterization
- phase transformation
- physical properties
- high pressure
- order–disorder
- intermetallics
- high temperature
- stability
