Development of Light Alloys with Excellent Mechanical Properties

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Dear Colleagues,

Light alloys, such as aluminum and magnesium, are important engineering materials for the automobile, aircraft, and electronic industries. In recent decades, scientific and technological advancements in the materials modelling, processing and characterisation of light alloys have led to the development of unique microstructure with superb mechanical performance. This is attributed to deeper understanding of the microstructural evolution during processing and the materials behavior under applied mechanical loading. However, future transport and electronic applications require the next generation of light alloys with exceptional strength, ductility, and recyclability in order to meet the demanding needs and improve the resource efficiency. Hence, this opens excellent opportunities to explore new design concepts and perform innovative research into the interplay between microstructure and mechanical properties of light alloys. For this reason, the present Topic “Development of light alloys with excellent mechanical properties” is put forward.

This Topic aims to collect excellent research studies of light alloys from all over the world on topics including but not limited to aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, mechanical properties, microstructure, heat treatment, solidification, deformation, thermomechanical processing, precipitation, phase transformation, SEM, EBSD, FIB, TEM, DSC, X-ray diffraction, mechanical/corrosion /hardness testing, materials modelling, process simulations, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Zhirou Zhang
Prof. Dr. Isaac Chang
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Alloys alloys	-	-	2022	15.0 days *	CHF 1000	Submit
Materials materials	3.4	5.2	2008	13.9 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Metals metals	2.9	4.4	2011	15 Days	CHF 2600	Submit

* Median value for all MDPI journals in the second half of 2023.

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