Nanostructured Metallic Materials: Preparation, Properties, and Applications
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metallic Functional Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1156
Special Issue Editors
Interests: tailor-made materials design; phase transformation; microstructural characterization; microstructure-property relationships
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: alloy design; metastable alloys; shape memory alloys; bulk metallic glasses; martensitic transformation; plastic deformation; crystallization and precipitation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The goal of this Special Issue is to review various applications and technologies of research on nanostructured metallic materials, which have been rapidly diversifying in recent years. The first nanostructured metallic materials (NMMs) were developed in the early 1990s as structural materials with unique mechanical and physical properties, including abundant high-angle grain boundaries. In addition to the improvement of mechanical properties, the scope of research was gradually expanded as NMMs exhibited excellent functional properties in various applications, such as soft magnetic materials and highly active catalysts. In general, NMMs include various types of defects such as grain boundaries, stacking faults, twin boundaries, and nanovoids. Additionally, they exhibit lower activation energy and thus have a high potential to expand into various application fields utilizing the reaction of metal atoms on the surface.
Recently, the introduction of the nanostructure in advanced engineering alloys is spreading, in the form of new deformation mechanisms being developed or novel concepts such as damage tolerance and self-healing being proposed. In addition, new processes for manufacturing nanoparticles, nanofoams, and nanocomposites have been actively developed. Due to their large surface area, these novel NMMs exhibit high activity as various functional materials, such as electrodes for water splitting and dye degradation, exhibit new phase transformation behavior by affecting phase stability, and improve toughness by inhibiting crack propagation. Furthermore, nanostructure design is emerging as a major concern in additive manufacturing and combinatorial deposition. As it has been studied in such a variety of application fields, it is necessary to organize and understand the correlation between interdisciplinary studies. In this Special Issue, we hope to review the current status of nanostructure design and understand the challenging fundamental issues common to various metallic materials applications.
Prof. Dr. Eun Soo Park
Guest Editor
Dr. Wook Ha Ryu
Assistant Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Fundamental theory and data-driven design of NMMs
- Theoretical modeling and simulation
- Low dimensional materials (nanopillars, nanowires, nanoparticles, thin films, nanoarchitecture materials, multilayered and graded materials)
- Process development for tailor-made synthesis and nanostructure control
- Microstructure characterization
- Properties of NMMs (mechanical, physical, magnetic, electric, thermal, and corrosion), especially including size effects
- Innovative and/or industrial applications
