Special Issue "Advances in Amorphous Alloy"

Dear Colleagues,

Amorphous alloys, as a kind of material without long-range ordered atomic configuration, have attracted intensive interests in the last several decades because of their outstanding physical, chemical and mechanical properties. The development of new amorphous alloy systems and the investigation of their unique properties are still at the cutting edge of metastable metallic alloys and condensed matter physics because of the potential merits in both the fundamental studies and commercial application perspectives in military, aerospace, biomedicine, sporting goods, electric power industry, and so on.

This Special Issue aims to present the latest advances in amorphous alloys, including the glass-forming ability; mechanical, physical and chemical properties of the metallic glasses; microstructure and its relationship to the properties; deformation behavior and the mechanism involved; application of amorphous structural/functional materials; and other related items of the amorphous alloys. Based on your scientific reputation and research interests, I am pleased to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Articles, reviews and communications are all welcome.

Prof. Dr. Lei Xia
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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• metallic glass
• amorphous alloy
• glass-forming ability
• mechanical properties
• physical properties
• chemical properties
• microstructure
• cluster
• phase evolution
• shear band
• magnetocaloric effect
• magnetostriction