Advanced Powder Metallurgy Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Powder metallurgy is a group of the advanced processes for the synthesis, processing, and shaping of various kinds of materials. Being initially inspired by ceramics processing, the methodology comprising the production of a powder and its transformation to a compact solid product has attracted great attention since the end of World War II. Nowadays, there are many technologies for powder production (e.g., gas atomization of the melt, chemical reduction, milling, and mechanical alloying) and its consolidation (e.g., pressing and sintering, hot isostatic pressing, and spark plasma sintering). The most promising ones allow for achieving an ultra-fine or nano-grained structure of the powder, and for preserving it during consolidation. Among these methods, mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering play a key role.

This Collection gives special focus to mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering methods, but is not limited to these methods. Other promising methods, such as self-propagating high-temperature sintering or microwave sintering are also of high interest.

We kindly invite you to submit a manuscript(s) for this Collection. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.

Assoc. Prof. Pavel Novák
Guest Editor

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