Materials Thermal Behavior during Laser or Electron Beam Irradiation

Dear Colleagues,

We propose a Special Issue on materials’ thermal behavior under laser and/or electron beam irradiation, with a special emphasis on applications, mathematical models, and the impact on social and engineering fields.

These combined topics have generated a huge output in different fields, such as industry, medicine, military defense, energetic sector, fundamental and applied research, which together represent our everyday life. The related studies and developments cover such different disciplines as theoretical, experimental, and computational physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics.

The emerging applications include wastewater and flue gas treatment, and plastics’ degradation, but the list is wide open.

The connection between laser and electron beam processing can be naturally done via physical models which describe both kinds of irradiation in a similar way (as, e.g., in the case of additive manufacturing or preparation of metallic and other nanoparticles).

Two centuries on since the discovery of the first heat equation by Fourier, the subject continues to be of vivid interest. New models describing laser–matter thermal phenomena have been developed, such as: i) micro/nanoscale heat transfer during ultrashort laser irradiation of materials, ii) ultrafast melting and re-solidification, iii) two temperature models with extensions, or iv) non-Fourier models with consideration of relaxation times, as well as, possibly, vaporization and plasma generation. 

Materials to be considered with this Special Issue extend from metals to ceramics and biomaterials, either from an experimental or analytical/numerical simulations approach. Relevant examples of laser versus e-beam irradiation such as polymers, biopolymers, elastomers, hydrogels, starch, food, and so on and similar ones are very much welcomed.

We therefore have the honor to invite anyone interested in contributing to this Special Issue. Original full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcomed.

Dr. Mihai Oane
Prof. Dr. Ion N. Mihailescu
Dr. Carmen Ristoscu
Guest Editors

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