Advanced Ferrous Metallurgy and High-Entropy Alloys

Dear Colleagues,

As a new type of alloy system breaking through the traditional design concept, high-entropy alloys (HEAs) have aroused great attention due to their complex microstructural features with exceptional thermal stability and mechanical properties even at cryogenic temperatures. The continuous development of ferrous metallurgy technologies significantly promotes the progress of steels and HEAs. In addition, the urgent need of carbon emission reduction also puts forward higher request to ferrous metallurgy. The main goal of the Special Issue is to highlight original research articles and review papers that concern the recent developments of advanced ferrous metallurgy and HEAs.

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

(i) new ferrous metallurgical technology used to manufacture special steels and HEAs with high cleanliness, high homogeneity and high performance;

(ii) hydrogen metallurgy and low-carbon metallurgy;

(iii) the effect of new metallurgical technologies on the performance of steels and HEAs;

(iv) the alloy design of special steels and HEAs;

(v) the microstructure, strength, ductility and corrosion behaviour of steels and HEAs; (vi) machine learning in ferrous metallurgy.

Dr. Hao Feng
Guest Editor

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