Advances in Structure Analysis of Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Materials (3rd Edition)
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Materials Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanical alloying; X-ray diffraction; diffuse scattering; RDF; PDF; Rietveld refinement; structure determination; residual stress
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Interests: materials engineering; amorphous and nanostructured materials; soft magnetic materials; steels; degradable biomaterials; heat treatment; mechanical alloying; powder metallurgy; fracture morphology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to publish original scientific articles describing the results of research works or review articles in a Special Issue entitled “Advances in Structure Analysis of Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Materials”.
Amorphous and nanocrystalline materials have unique physical, chemical and mechanical properties, which allow their utilization in numerous and advanced applications. These materials feature in the mainstream of worldwide research in the field of metallic and composite materials. Thus, to better understand the mechanisms occurring in low-order materials, and thus model and design novel materials more effectively, it is necessary to fully understand and describe the structure of these materials.
The submitted works may therefore concern both innovative engineering materials with modification of their structure and physicochemical properties, as well as original technological solutions and mathematical models that will be helpful in formulating new conclusions. This Special Issue of Materials will be a detailed overview of recent research and development in the field of structure analysis of amorphous and nanocrystalline materials and composites. It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications and reviews related to structural analysis are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Karolus
Prof. Dr. Sabina Lesz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structural characterization
- amorphous phase
- nanocrystalline structure
- radial and pair distribution functions
- Rietveld analysis
- mechanical alloying
- melt spinning method
- calorimetry and stability of amorphous materials
- glass forming ability
- crystallization
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