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Section Board for 'Advanced Materials Characterization' (89)
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Interests: bioinspiration; durability; fatigue; fracture toughness; natural armors
Interests: electronic structure; synchrotron radiation techniques; ARPES; graphene; silicene; nanoARPES; XAS; x-ray absorption microscopy; photoemission microscopy; chemical imaging

Interests: surface engineering; structural integrity; nanomaterials; biomaterials; bio-interfaces
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Interests: diffusion in (metallic) (nano)materials; solid state reaction (on the nanoscale too); Shape memory alloys; investigation of structural changes of alloys by acoustic and magnetic (Barkhausen-noise) emission techniques

Interests: fatigue and fracture behavior of materials; mechanical characterization; structural integrity of conventional and innovative materials
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Special Issue in Metals: Mechanical Behavior of High-Strength Low-Alloy Steels
Special Issue in Materials: The Brittle Failure of Different Materials
Special Issue in Metals: Fracture Behaviour of Innovative Materials under Different Enviromental Conditions
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Mechanical Behaviour of Aluminium Alloys
Special Issue in Materials: Deformation, Fatigue and Fracture of Materials
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Welding of Steels
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Multiscale Fatigue Design
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Recent Trends in Advanced High-Strength Steels
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Structural Integrity of Aluminium Alloys
Special Issue in Metals: High-Strength Low-Alloy Steels
Special Issue in Metals: Fatigue and Fracture of Traditional and Advanced Structural Alloys
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: 10th Anniversary of Applied Sciences: Invited Papers in Mechanical Engineering Section
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: New Trends in Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue Design
Special Issue in Metals: Application of Alloys in Transport
Special Issue in Materials: Advanced and Emerging Materials-2021
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Progress in Advanced High-Strength Steels
Special Issue in Metals: High-Strength Low-Alloy Steels: Current and Future Challenges
Special Issue in Metals: Selected Papers from 2020 3rd International Joint Conference on Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (JCMME 2020)
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics: Applications and Trends
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Advances in Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue Design
Special Issue in Materials: Multiscaling in Polymer Composite Materials
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Mechanical Engineering in Europe
Special Issue in Materials: Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
Special Issue in Metals: Fatigue Behavior and Crack Mechanism of Metals and Alloys
Special Issue in Polymers: Structural Integrity of Polymeric Components Produced by Additive Manufacturing
Special Issue in Metals: Fatigue Behavior Analysis of Metals and Alloys
Special Issue in Polymers: Advanced Techniques Utilized in Smart Composites
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Advanced Structure Materials and Processing
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: 5th Anniversary of Materials Section—Recent Advances in Smart Materials
Special Issue in Materials: An Overview of Recent Materials for Targeted Applications
Special Issue in Metals: Numerical Methods Applied to Fatigue and Fracture Phenomena
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Applied Sciences in 2021
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Mechanical Behavior of Lightweight Metallic Alloys
Topics: Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Topics: Surface Treatmens for Protecting from Fracture and Fatigue Damage

2. Head of the Laser, Soliton and Nonlinear Materials team, Laboratoire de Photonique d'Angers (LPhiA), Univ angers, F-49000 Angers, France
Interests: third order nonlinearities; nonlinear measurement method; optical phase measurement; z-scan
Interests: archaeometry; NDT; XRF; tomography; Monte Carlo
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Interests: neutron diffraction; residual stress; mechanical properties of materials; additive manufacturing; porous ceramics
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Special Issue in Metals: Advanced Characterization and On-Line Process Monitoring of Additively Manufactured Materials and Components
Special Issue in Materials: Micro Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation
Special Issue in Materials: Linear and Non-linear Mechanical Behavior of Brittle Materials

Interests: complementary spectroscopic techniques; infrared spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopic; neutron scattering; polymers; peo; peg; disaccharides; trehalose; maltose; sucrose
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Special Issue in Climate: Climate Change Dynamics and Modeling: Future Perspectives
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Structural and Dynamical Characterization of Molecular Systems
Special Issue in Climate: Regional Special Issue: Climate Change in Italy
Special Issue in Polymers: Spectroscopy Applied to Polymers
Special Issue in International Journal of Molecular Sciences: Applications of Spectroscopy in Biophysical Research

Interests: sol-gel synthesis gels; electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; complex formation for the metal stain removal from art surfaces; lignin radicalization; zinc-based curing activators; defectivity of ZnO nanocrystals

Interests: optical spin orientation; photodetectors; semiconductor spintronics; magnetoelectric coupling; antiferromagnetic spintronics; spin orbitronics
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Interests: NMR spectroscopy; inorganic chemistry
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Interests: diamond; boriding; boronizing; chemical vapor deposition; superhard materials
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Interests: crystallography; combined analysis; anisotropic properties; texture; materials
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Interests: design and reliability assessment of advanced electronic packaging; nanomechanics and nanostructure analysis; artificial intelligence algorithms; computational solid mechanics; AI-assisted design-on-simulation technology
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Interests: laminated modeling; model-based development; statistical modeling; development of novel infrastructural materials; development of intelligent forging process; additive manufacturing using electron beam melting (ebm)

Interests: fracture mechanics; fatigue; vibroacoustics; boundary element method; FEM-BEM coupled approaches
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Aeroacustic and Vibroacoustic Advancement in Aerospace and Automotive Systems
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Fatigue and Fracture Behaviour of Additively Manufactured Mechanical Components
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Additive Manufacturing in Industry
Special Issue in Materials: On the Residual Strength and Damage Identification of Damaged Composite Structure
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Advanced Numerical Approaches for Crack Growth Simulation
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Advances in Vibroacoustics and Aeroacustics of Marine, Aerospace and Automotive Systems
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Thermomechanical Fatigue, Creep, Plasticity, with Applications to Aerospace and Aircraft Engines
Interests: magnetic nanoparticles; semiconductor nanoparticles; metallic nanoparticles; quantum dots; biosensors; magnetic liposomes; new fluorescent probes; bionanoconjugates; drug delivery; solar cells
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Interests: scanning probe microscopies; organic materials; thin films; molecular growth phenomena; nanofabrication

Interests: processing and heat treatment of aluminum and magnesium, metallurgy of welding, electrodeposition, phase transformations in metals and alloys, high-temperature corrosion, metallic and ceramic thin films and coatings, nanomaterials, grain boundary engineering, crystallographic texture, semisolid processing of alloys, analytical techniques of materials investigation
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Interests: electron-beam irradiation at the transmission electron microscope; beam damage in metals; electron-beam sintering; surface structure; surface reconstruction; grain boundary structure; grain boundary migration; grain boundary structural transition; thermal roughening transition; kinetic roughening; strain-induced roughening; grain growth; grain boundary mechanics; in situ high-resoulution transmission electron microscopy
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Interests: composite materials; damage modeling; tribology; additive manufacturing
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Interests: multiscale/multiphysics modeling of materials and processes; process-microstructure-property correlation; additive manufacturing process; computational synthesis of 2D materials; materials under extreme conditions modeling

Interests: transmission electron microscopy; density functional theory; nanomaterials; nanocrystals

Interests: Energy, Batteries and Fuel Cell, Powder electrode materials, Nanomaterials, Synthesis and Characterization
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Special Issue in Crystals: Sol-Gel Method Applied to Crystalline Materials
Special Issue in Inventions: The Development and Optimization of Innovative Systems, Processes, and Materials for The Production, Conversion, and Storage of Energy
Special Issue in Materials: Advance Materials for Hydrogen Storage
Topics: Characterization of Electrochemical Materials

2. Department of Materials Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian 116028, China
Interests: materials design; short-range order; atomic structure; high-temperature; stainless steels; high entropy materials; amorphous materials

Interests: materials characterization (SEM, SEM-EDS, EBSD, AFM, XRD, HT-XRD, FTIR-ATR, Raman); environmental scanning electron microscopy; structural/thermal properties of ionic liquids & molten salts; ionic liquids for CO2 capture; novel graphene production and characterization

Interests: biomaterials; surfaces and interfaces; adhesion of fine particles; materials characterization
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Interests: nano-materials; nano-composites; nanotechnology; deposition and characterization of antibacterial, antiviral, tribological coatings; metal oxides and nitrides; characteristics of TEM, XRD of nanocomposite materials; doped titanium dioxide; magnetron sputtering; materials in the aerospace industry

Interests: deformation twinning; plasticity and recrystallization in magnesium; crystal plasticity; Interface defect theory; grain boundaries

Interests: electron microscopy; SEM; TEM; FIB; electron tomography; metal oxides; semiconductors
Interests: metallic syntactic foams; material characterization: physical, geometrical, mechanical, thermal, and corrosion; experimental and numerical analysis; manufacturing procedures
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Special Issue in Metals: Cellular Metals: Fabrication, Properties and Applications

Interests: steels; microstructural characterization; phase transformation; mechanical properties; mechanical behavior of materials
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Interests: mechanical engineering; railway vehicles; contact mechanics; railway brake test stands

Interests: solar powered electric vehicle (EV); first, second, and third-generation PV for BIPV/BAPV; energy-positive building and electric vehicles; low-concentrating PV (LSC, CPC, holography)
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Special Issue in Energies: Recent Advances in Renewable Energy and Clean Energy
Special Issue in Energies: Challenges and Opportunities in the Integration of Solar Photovoltaics in Developing Countries
Special Issue in World Electric Vehicle Journal: Electric Vehicles—Solution toward Zero Emission from the Transport Sector
Special Issue in World Electric Vehicle Journal: Electric Vehicles and Charging Facilities for a Sustainable Transport Sector
Interests: beam; plate; and shells structural models; multi-field and multi-scale problems; non-linear mechanics; composite; smart; functionally graded and advanced materials; lattice materials; variable stiffness materials; finite element and meshless methods
Interests: fracture; stress analysis; fracture mechanics; solid mechanics; fatigue crack growth modeling
Interests: advanced high-strength steels; high-strength low-alloyed steels; heat treatment; thermomechanical processing; hot rolling; hot-working phenomena; physical simulation; deformation of metals
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Special Issue in Materials: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
Special Issue in Materials: Effects of Temperature and Strain Rate on Steel Strengthening
Special Issue in Materials: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels - Volume II
Interests: batteries; energy storage; electrode materials; electrolyte; interfacial layer

2. On sabbatical leave to Department of Mechanical Enginnering, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Interests: physical metallurgy; computational alloy thermodynamics and kinetics; ICME; alloy and process design; metastable austenite in steels; TRIP effects in steels
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Special Issue in Metals: Advances in Physical Metallurgy

Interests: titanium alloys; biomedical titanium alloys; additive manufacturing; microstructure; mechanical properties
Interests: residual stress analysis; texture determination; structural applications; heat treatment; nanomaterials; nanostructured materials; X-ray diffraction; geographical analysis

Interests: physical metallurgy; alloy design; shape memory and superelastic alloys; phase stability; phase transformatoin; microstructural control; mechanical properties; biomaterials; intermetallics; functional composites, materials processing
Interests: soldering; heat and mass transfer; reliability; metallurgy
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Special Issue in Materials: The 44th IMAPS Poland Conference

Interests: TEM; STEM; XRD; steels; alloys; catalysts; ceramics

Interests: fretting wear; friction; contact mechanics; piezoelectric materials; functionally graded materials

Interests: transmission electron microscopy; structural characterization; nanomaterials; nanoscale mechanics

Interests: materials science; multidisciplinary; solid state chemistry; crystallography; electrochemistry; energy and fuels; Electron microscopy

Interests: nanoindentation; microstructural analysis; steel structures; computational mechanics

Interests: nanomaterials - oxides, carbonaceous, alloys, composites; nonclassical synthesis of nanomaterials; powder X-ray diffraction; crystal structure refinement; structure-properties relationship.
Interests: computer-aided testing (CAT) of metals and composites; cyclic behavior, fatigue, and fracture: testing and modeling; damage characterization under low and high-cycle fatigue; micro-hardness material characterization
Interests: structural materials; protective coatings; durability modelling; corrosion; cathodic protection; recycled materials
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Interests: optical methods; experimental mechanics; materials design and characterization; nanosciences and nanotechnology; structural optimization; computational mechanics
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Interests: advanced analytical electron microscopy; cathodoluminescence; semiconducting materials films and nanosystems; nanostructured oxides; chalcogenide phase change materials
Interests: multifunctional macromolecular materials; biorelated polymers; macromolecular conformation; self-assembly in macromolecular and hybrid systems; scattering methods; separation techniques
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Interests: the production of biochar and bio-oil from biomass via thermochemical treatments, such as pyrolysis and hydrothermal liquefaction; the migration and transformation of heavy metals and nitrogen during the thermochemical treatment; and the valorization of the byproduct aqueous phase of the thermochemical processes; the use of molecular dynamics and machine learning to assist biomass conversion
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Interests: coating; aluminum alloy; ceramic material

Interests: biophysics; soft matter; spectroscopic techniques
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Applications and Advancements of Spectroscopy
Special Issue in Climate: Climate Change Dynamics and Modeling: Future Perspectives
Special Issue in Climate: Feature Papers for Section "Climate Dynamics and Modelling"

Interests: porous materials; zeolites; metal-organic frameworks; ordered mesoporous silicas; porosity characterization, adsorption

Interests: energy and charge transfer processes in optically responsive molecular material with practical application in bioimaging, sensing and photodynamic therapy; optical properties of carbon nanomaterials (carbon dots and nanographenes); photo-induced charge generation in organic semiconductors
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Interests: Raman spectroscopy; surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy; SHINERS; spectroelectrochemistry; biospectroscopy; self-assembled monolayers; conducting polymers; molecular electrochemistry; bioelectrochemistry
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Interests: additive manufacturing; selective laser melting; design; microstructure analysis; tensile properties; fatigue behavior; fracture; surface treatment; residual stress; in situ characterization; diffraction techniques; metals; shape memory alloys; steels; aluminum alloys; titanium alloys

Interests: non-destructive testing; fatigue; fracture mechanics; thermography; mechanical behavior of materials
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Special Issue in Materials: Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of Composite Materials
Special Issue in Materials: Experimental Techniques and Artificial Intelligence for the Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Materials

Interests: micro/nanofabrication; semiconductor nanostructures; electrochemistry; chemical etching; electroless etching; silicon nanostructures; light-matter interaction; solar cell; catalysis; battery

Interests: physical metallurgy; steels; phase transformations; Ti alloys; atom probe tomography; mechanical behaviour; recrystallization; electron microscopy
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Interests: light alloys; metals for additive manufacturing; three-dimensional material characterization; synchrotron tomography; high energy synchrotron diffraction; aluminum alloys; titanium alloys; magnesium alloys; titanium aluminides; metal matrix composites; phase transformations; relationships microstructure-properties; thermo-mechanical behavior of metals
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Special Issue in Materials: Thermo-Mechanical Behaviour of Structural Lightweight Alloys
Special Issue in Metals: Modern Aerospace Materials

Interests: non-destructive testing; ultrasonic waves; ground penetrating radar; dynamics of structures; material testing
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Interests: static and dynamic analysis of structures; nonlinear inelastic analysis of structures; soil - structure interaction; linear and nonlinear theory of elasticity

Interests: mechanisms of plastic deformation; microstructure development; texture formation; recrystallization; phase transformation

Interests: TXRF; grazing incidence XRF; micro-XRF for 2D and 2D imaging; synchrotron radiation induced XRF

Interests: nanocrystalline materials; mechanical alloying; thermal analysis; XRD structural analysis; shape memory; soft magnetic; composites
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Special Issue in Materials: Novel Materials Synthesis by Mechanical Alloying/Milling
Special Issue in Energies: Nanotubes and Magnetic Materials for Hydrogen Storage
Special Issue in Magnetochemistry: Magnetocaloric Effect: Theory, Materials and Applications
Special Issue in Metals: Soft Magnetic Alloys and Composites
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Magnetocaloric Effect: Theory, Materials and Applications
Special Issue in Materials: Novel Materials Synthesis by Mechanical Alloying/Milling (Volume II)
Special Issue in Materials: Nanocrystalline Materials: Microstructure, Soft Magnetism and Mechanical Properties
Special Issue in Metals: Mechanical Alloying/Milling: Processing and Materials
Interests: MEMS design and process; precision measurement and control technology; analytical instrument; biochip and microfluidic research; as well as electromechanical integration technology
Interests: nanostructured metallic materials; heterostructure materials; gradient nanograined materials; nanotwinned materials; mechanical properties

2. Institute of Physical Metallurgy, Metalforming and Nanotechnology, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary
Interests: mechanics of materials; polycrystal plasticity; crystallographic texture; strain hardening; nanomaterials by severe plastic deformation; multilevel modeling
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Special Issue in Materials: Metallurgy by Severe Plastic Deformation

Interests: thermal analysis and calorimetry; high temperature diffraction; rare earth oxides
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Interests: ordered mesostructures; metal organic frameworks (MOFs); periodic mesoporous organosilicas; covalent organic frameworks; adsorption; catalysis and catalytic materials
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Interests: oxides; multiferroics; negative thermal expansion; soil science; mineral-organic interactions; bio/geoscience; x-ray diffraction; x-ray computed tomography; x-ray absorption spectroscopy; scanning transmission x-ray microscopy
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Interests: fabrication and investigation of magnetic and magneto-transport properties and their correlation with morpho-structural properties of nanostructured materials; single-phases; magnetic composites
Interests: material and surface characterisation and analysis (STM, AFM, electron microscopy and spectroscopy, nanoindentation); ion beam implantation and materials processing by ion beams; thin film deposition, characterisation and applications; analytical nstrumentation; provision of analytical service, support and training

2. Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Interests: glass science and technology; optical materials; mid-infrared soft glasses and fibers; laser–matter interaction; laser-induced damage mechanism
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Interests: multiscale modeling; mechanical properties; low-dimensional materials; graphene foams; nano-porous materials

Interests: micro- and nanomechanics; micro- and nanostructure characterization

Interests: mechanical characterisation of materials and structures; full-field optical methods in experimental mechanics; mechanical and fracture identification methods; material characterisation at high strain rate loading based on full-field measurements
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Interests: metal matrix composites; friction stir welding; hot working; aluminium alloys; magnesium alloys
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Interests: impact testing; rate sensitivity; constitutive modeling; celluar materials; SMA alloy
Interests: heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation; catalytic reaction engineering; biomass conversion; heterogeneous catalysis in fine chemicals; efficient utilization of syngas

Interests: microscopy and microanalysis; nanomagnetism and spintronics; 1D and 2D nanostructures; halide perovskites; energy materials
Interests: plasmaonics; raman spectroscopy; surface enhanced raman scattering; nano-optics; nanosensors

Interests: TEM; interfaces; grain boundaries; ceramics; microstructure evolution