High Entropy Alloys, Refractory Materials and Advanced Metallic Materials: Mechanical Properties and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 9
Special Issue Editors
Interests: refractory metals; compound carbide; high-entropy alloy; thermodynamic calculation
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Interests: alloys
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Interests: high-entropy alloy; microstructure characterization; densification mechanism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced metallic materials, including high-entropy alloys, refractory metals, and their carbide derivatives, are central to innovation in high-temperature, high-strength, and extreme-environment applications. These materials exhibit exceptional mechanical properties such as ultra-high yield strength, remarkable fracture toughness, and excellent creep resistance up to 1500°C. They also demonstrate outstanding wear resistance, thermal stability, and oxidation/corrosion resilience under harsh thermal and mechanical conditions. Their unique microstructural features—including severe lattice distortion, tunable phase stability, and nanoscale precipitate architectures—enable them to exhibit unprecedented performance in next-generation aerospace propulsion systems, nuclear fusion reactors, advanced armor systems, and high-performance industrial machining. Moreover, their compatibility with additive manufacturing and coating technologies offers new pathways for manufacturing complex geometries and surface engineering solutions. These capabilities make them critical for pushing the boundaries of technology in sectors such as aerospace, energy, nuclear, defense, and advanced manufacturing.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in this field and foster discussion on the design, processing, characterization, and application of these materials. We welcome contributions that explore new compositional strategies—such as multi-principal-element alloys and complex carbides—and advances in manufacturing techniques, including sintering, coating deposition, and powder processing. Studies addressing mechanical behavior under extreme conditions, theoretical modeling, microstructure–property relationships, and real-world applications are particularly encouraged.
This interdisciplinary Special Issue aims to present research ranging from the fundamentals of advanced metallic materials to their applications, and we seek original papers and reviews that showcase new directions in material synthesis, performance evaluation, and technological integration.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Synthesis of high-purity powders and nanopowders for refractory metals and carbides;
- Densification mechanisms and sintering technologies for advanced metallic systems;
- Design and processing of novel high-entropy alloys and composites;
- Deposition and performance of high-temperature coatings;
- Theoretical prediction and computational modeling of multi-phase and high-entropy materials;
- Mechanical and chemical behavior in extreme environments;
- High-temperature applications of new metallic materials and composites.
- We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Yafei Pan
Prof. Dr. Fenghua Luo
Dr. Siyao Xie
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- high-entropy alloys
- refractory metals
- mechanical properties
- high-temperature applications
- spark plasma sintering
- additive manufacturing
- microstructure–property relationships
- densification mechanisms
- extreme environments
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