Advanced Magnesium Alloys: Design, Processing, Microstructure, Properties and Applications
A Special Issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944) belonging to the section "Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2027 | Viewed by 727
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Interests: research in magnesium and high-entropy alloys; skill in thermodyanmics; multi-scale simulations and characterizations
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Interests: additive manufacturing; machine learning; superalloys; microstructural control; severe plastic deformation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Magnesium alloys have attracted increasing attention as promising lightweight structural materials owing to their low density, high specific strength, good machinability, and potential for multifunctional applications. They are of particular interest in transportation, aerospace, electronics, biomedical devices, energy systems, and emerging extreme-environment applications. However, the broader engineering application of magnesium alloys is still limited by several intrinsic and processing-related challenges, including limited room-temperature formability, insufficient strength–ductility synergy, poor corrosion resistance, thermal instability, texture-induced anisotropy, and difficulties in large-scale manufacturing.
Recent advances in alloy design, thermomechanical processing, additive manufacturing, surface modification, computational materials science, and advanced characterization have provided new opportunities to overcome these limitations. In particular, the development of rare-earth and low-rare-earth magnesium alloys, precipitation-strengthened systems, high-ductility wrought alloys, corrosion-resistant alloys, biodegradable magnesium alloys, and magnesium matrix composites has significantly expanded the potential application space of this material family. Meanwhile, multiscale modeling, CALPHAD, first-principles calculations, machine learning, in situ characterization, and high-throughput experiments are accelerating the understanding of composition–processing–microstructure–property relationships in magnesium alloys.
This Special Issue aims to provide a broad platform for the latest advances in magnesium alloys, covering fundamental mechanisms, alloy development, processing technologies, performance optimization, and practical applications. Both original research articles and comprehensive review papers are welcome.
[Topic 1] Alloy design and composition optimization of magnesium alloys.
[Topic 2] Thermodynamics, kinetics and computational design.
[Topic 3] Microstructure control and strengthening mechanisms.
[Topic 4] Plastic deformation and mechanical behavior.
[Topic 5] Processing and manufacturing technologies.
[Topic 6] Corrosion, surface modification and environmental degradation.
[Topic 7] Biodegradable and biomedical magnesium alloys.
[Topic 8] Magnesium matrix composites and multifunctional materials.
Dr. Yiwen Chen
Dr. Yunwei Gui
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- magnesium alloys
- lightweight materials
- alloy design
- microstructure control
- mechanical properties
- corrosion re-sistance
- thermomechanical processing
- additive manufacturing
- biodegradable metals
- CALPHAD
- precipitation strengthening
- texture
- LPSO phase
- advanced characterization
- materials genome engineering
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