Aims & Scope

Aims

Metals (ISSN 2075-4701) is an open access journal of related scientific research and technology development. It publishes reviews, regular research papers (articles) and short communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, there is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.

Metals provides a forum for publishing papers which advance the in-depth understanding of the relationship between processing, structure, and properties or functions of all kinds of metals.

Topics Covered

• metallurgy
• alloys
• base metals (include iron, nickel, lead and zinc)
• ferrous and non-ferrous metals
• noble metals (include tantalum, gold, platinum, silver and rhodium)
• precious metals
• transition metals
• metalloids
• semi-metals
• metal compounds
• cermets
• biometals
• metallicity
• rare metals
• synthetic metals
• applications of metals
• trade of metals

Several topical special issues will be published.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

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Copyright / Open Access

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