Novelties in Solidification Techniques of Single-Crystalline Materials
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 December 2023) | Viewed by 4201
Special Issue Editors
Interests: superalloys; single-crystals; X-ray diffraction topography; structural defects; crystal growth
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: superalloys; foundry; crysallization form liquide phase; directional solidification; single crystal castings; numerical simulation of solidification process
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Single-crystalline materials are widely used in many modern industries, such as aerospace, defense, automotive, energy, and electronics. Despite the more complicated and expensive process of designing and obtaining single-crystalline materials, they are often the only possibility to obtain the required properties. For example, multiphase composition single-crystalline materials have much higher strength parameters than their polycrystalline substitutes.
The properties of single-crystalline materials largely depend on their preparation method, technology, and parameters. The defect structure formed during crystallization may be influenced by many factors, e.g., obtaining the desired crystal orientation, types and amounts of impurities, crucible material, etc.
The above dependencies, combined with the need to obtain single-crystalline materials with still new, different, and better properties, make it necessary to modify their production technology or create new solidification methods. Research results on this topic can create an interesting collection of articles on a wide range of aspects of the solidification technology of single-crystalline materials, in both model and practical research.
"Novelties in Solidification Techniques of Single-Crystalline Materials", as a Special Issue of Crystals, can report on the novelties in the technology of obtaining single-crystalline materials and the effects of their application, summarizing the progress achieved in recent years. In the following Special Issue, we will focus on pioneering and innovative works on obtaining strictly single-crystals and multiphase single-crystalline materials.
Dr. Jacek Krawczyk
Dr. Dariusz Szeliga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- single-crystals
- crystals growth
- crystallization
- directional crystallization
- growth modeling
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