Functional Fe-Based Alloys with Magneto-Mechanical Coupling

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue will cover (but not be restricted to) the following topics for Fe-based materials:

• Magnetically soft and hard functional steels and alloys
• Alloys with special magnetic properties and structures
• Alloys with enhanced and giant magnetostriction for sensors and actuators
• High- and low-damping alloys

Magnetic materials play an important role in electrical energy generation, transmission, and conversion, and they are used as permanent magnets, high- and low-damping alloys, sensors, actuators, etc. Hence, they have a significant technological and social value. The soft magnets used in present applications are full-fledged materials, maintaining evolutionary characteristics in the progress of their properties and applications. Soft magnetic materials are also used in the production of high magnetostrictive and high damping materials with a magneto-mechanical source of damping of unwanted forced or free-decay vibrations.

The discovery of amorphous soft magnetic alloys enriched the landscape of applicative magnetic materials, and the amorphous and the nanocrystalline alloys have been real breakthrough materials in the past 20–30 years. A lot of research has been conducted into novel compositions and effective treatments, to improve their versatility and energetic efficiency.

A relatively unexplored and promising research area is the development of new hard magnetic films with perpendicular anisotropy, and their applications in spin electronics and magnetic recording. Hard magnetic alloys can also be produced by crystallization of the glassy phase.

Last but not least, this special issue is also the second option for participants of the forthcoming International Conference on Internal Friction and Mechanical Spectroscopy ICIFMS-19 (http://icifms19.ru) to publish their papers on elastic and anelastic phenomena in Fe-based crystalline and amorphous materials in addition to JALCOM, where only one paper per Conference fee will be considered.

Prof. Igor S. Golovin
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.