Metals | Notable Review Papers Published in 2025
Metals (ISSN: 2075-4701) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. The Editorial Office has selected a list of notable review papers published in 2025, covering critical and diverse areas of metallic materials research and providing insights for all enthusiasts and professionals in the field. We hope that these papers will foster new research ideas and offer references for scholars and authors in this field. Please feel free to read these papers and share them with your peers.
1. “Metal Additive Manufacturing and Molten Pool Dynamic Characterization Monitoring: Advances in Machine Learning for Directed Energy Deposition”
by Wentao He, Lida Zhu, Can Liu and Hongxiao Jiang
Metals 2025, 15(2), 106; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15020106
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/2/106
2. “Elemental Segregation and Solute Effects on Mechanical Properties and Processing of Vanadium Alloys: A Review”
by Tianjiao Lei, Chongze Hu, Qiaofu Zhang and Xin Wang
Metals 2025, 15(1), 96; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15010096
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/1/96
3. “A Critical Review on the Comparative Assessment of Rare-Earth and Non-Rare-Earth Alloying in Magnesium Alloys”
by Hafiz Muhammad Rehan Tariq, Muhammad Ishtiaq, Hyun-Hak Kang, Umer Masood Chaudry and Tea-Sung Jun
Metals 2025, 15(2), 128; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15020128
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/2/128
4. “A Review on Material Dynamics in Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing: Bonding, Stress, and Structural Evolution in Metals”
by Abishek Kafle, Shengjun Lu, Raman Silwal and Weihang Zhu
Metals 2025, 15(2), 187; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15020187
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/2/187
5. “A Review on the Additive Manufacturing of W-Cu Composites”
by Muhammad Hussain, Bosheng Dong, Zhijun Qiu, Ulf Garbe, Zengxi Pan and Huijun Li
Metals 2025, 15(2), 197; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15020197
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/2/197
6. “A Review on the Magnetovolume Effect of the Full Heusler Alloys Ni2MnZ (Z = In, Sn, Sb)”
by Takeshi Kanomata, Xiao Xu, Takuo Sakon, Yuki Nagata, Shin Imada, Toshihiro Omori, Ryosuke Kainuma, Tetsujiro Eto, Yoshiya Adachi, Takumi Kihara, et al.
Metals 2025, 15(2), 215; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15020215
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/2/215
7. “Application of Artificial Intelligence to Support Design and Analysis of Steel Structures”
by Sina Sarfarazi, Ida Mascolo, Mariano Modano and Federico Guarracino
Metals 2025, 15(4), 408; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15040408
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/4/408
8. “Optimising Additive Manufacturing of NiTi and NiMnGa Shape Memory Alloys: A Review”
by Ali Ramezannejad, Daniel East, Anthony Bruce Murphy, Guoxing Lu and Kun Vanna Yang
Metals 2025, 15(5), 488; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15050488
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/5/488
9. “Stainable Utilization Strategies for Basic Oxygen Furnace Slag: Properties, Processing, and Future Directions”
by Chunting Ma, Siqi Zhang, Keqing Li, Tong Zhao, Qingxin Meng, Dongshang Guan and Ao Zhang
Metals 2025, 15(5), 537; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15050537
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/5/537
10. “Numerical Simulation and Hot Isostatic Pressing Technology of Powder Titanium Alloys: A Review”
by Jianglei Cui, Xiaolong Lv and Hanguang Fu
Metals 2025, 15(5), 542; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15050542
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/5/542
11. “Data Science in Order and Disorder of High-Entropy Materials”
by Jiasheng Wang, Jianzhong Jiang, Peter K. Liaw, Guihong Geng and Yong Zhang
Metals 2025, 15(6), 632; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15060632
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/6/632
12. “Experimental and Simulation Research Progress on the Solidification Structure Evolution of High Chromium Cast Iron”
by Longxiao Huang, Yang Liu and Hanguang Fu
Metals 2025, 15(6), 663; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15060663
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/6/663
13. “Composition Optimization in Alloy Design for Nickel-Based Single Crystal Superalloy: A Review”
by Yu Zhou, Xinbao Zhao, Yunpeng Fan, Quanzhao Yue, Wanshun Xia, Qinghai Pan, Yuan Cheng, Weiqi Li, Yuefeng Gu and Ze Zhang
Metals 2025, 15(7), 793; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15070793
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/7/793
14. “Hydrometallurgical Treatment of EAF By-Products for Metal Recovery: Opportunities and Challenges”
by Ewa Rudnik
Metals 2025, 15(8), 914; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15080914
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/8/914
15. “AI Design for High Entropy Alloys: Progress, Challenges and Future Prospects”
by Enzhi Xie and Chao Yang
Metals 2025, 15(9), 1012; https://doi.org/10.3390/met15091012
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/15/9/1012