Crystallography on Metallic Metasatable Phases in Materials Design, Processing, Science and Engineering
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystallography and Applications of Metallic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 964
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metallic metasatable phases; multiscale modeling; characterization; crystallography; defects; physical properties; innovation
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Interests: metallic metasatable phases; multiscale modeling; characterization; crystallography; defects; physical properties; innovation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metallic metastable phases, such as precipitation during casting, forging, and heat treatment or intermetallics in brazing, soldering, and welding, have pivotal influences on the specific strength, toughness, stiffness, and corrosion resistance (etc.) in steels and aluminum-, titanium-, copper-, magnesium-, zirconium-based alloys. Various analytical techniques, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electrical microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and synchrotron radiation diffraction and tomography combined with multiscale simulation have been applied to study their crystallography, with the purpose of understanding and tailoring the physical properties of the base material.
Due to the complex and delicate crystal structure of metallic metastable phases, involving inherited vacancy, dislocation, stacking fault, twinning, misorientation, etc., multidisciplinary researching is indispensable. Therefore, the present topic offers a platform for integrating interdisciplinary branches with the purpose of bringing together a wide variety of fields (experimental or theoretical), with topics of interest covering, but not limited to, the following:
- Multiscale modeling the thermal and dynamical behaviors;
- Phase transformation crystallography;
- Characterization of crystal structure in different scales;
- Characterization of misorientation for co-existence phases;
- Specific strength, toughness, stiffness, and corrosion resistance;
- Vacancy, dislocation, stacking fault, and twin defects;
- Innovation hardware and software.
Prof. Dr. Bin Wen
Prof. Dr. Changzeng Fan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metallic metasatable phases
- crystallography
- multiscale modeling
- characterization
- defects
- physical properties
- innovation
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