Announcements

UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. In 2020 the SDG Publishers Compact was launched, aimed to inspire publishers and accelerate progress to achieve the 17 goals by 2030. Members of the programme are committed to support the publication of materials that will promote and inspire actions towards SDGs.

MDPI is an eager advocate of SDGs and has already been supporting the programme by creating Special Issues and publishing a series of books on SDGs prior to joining the Compact in 2021. MDPI's Sustainability Foundation initiated the World Sustainability Awards in 2016. We fully support UN's goals to promote sustainable actions that make the world a better place for all and, as part of its commitment, we will focus our actions on SDG10: Reduced Inequalities whilst promoting all 17 SDGs. For more details, please visit the programme’s website: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact/.

Joining this initiative was a unanimous decision. MDPI has in its core values the dissemination of science for all, breaking the wall between research access and under-represented members of the scientific community and the general population. To support this initiative further and continue to support under-represented scientists, MDPI will take a series of actions that will be announced once ready.

The first action MDPI takes is to nominate Dr. Liliane Auwerter as the coordinator of the programme. Dr. Auwerter studied Environmental Process Technology (UTFPR, Brazil), obtained her MSc degree in Water and Environmental Engineering (University of Surrey, UK) and in 2020 completed her PhD in self-healing low-friction materials for water transport (Imperial College London, UK), always focusing on diverse scientific projects that would potentially bring sustainability to industrial processes. As a student in Brazil, she engaged in volunteering activities focused on environmental education and took part in the Millennial Development Goals meetings held at the university.

For more information, please contact:
Dr. Liliane Auwerter
Scientific Officer
liliane.auwerter@mdpi.com

We are excited to welcome the following recognized researchers, who recently joined the Editorial Board of Metals:

Prof. Dr. Junpin Lin;

Prof. Dr. Huijun Li;

Prof. Dr. Zhijian Peng;

Prof. Dr. Salima Bouvier;

Prof. Dr. Alexios P. Douvalis;

Prof. Dr. Namhyun Kang;

Dr. Caterina Zanella;

Prof. Dr. Anil Mahapatro;

Dr. Liangfeng Huang;

Prof. Dr. Jianghua Chen;

Dr. Cuiwei Du;

Prof. Dr. Yong Yang;

Prof. Dr. Angelo Fernando Padilha;

Prof. Dr. Ruslan Z. Valiev;

Prof. Dr. Chang Woo Lee;

Prof. Dr. Xiangdong Gao;

Prof. Dr. Andre Paulo Tschiptschin;

Prof. Dr. Sean R. Agnew;

Dr. Ruslan R. Balokhonov;

Dr. Frank Stein;

Prof. Dr. Guosong Wu;

Dr. Michael Störmer;

Dr. Xiangyuan (Carl) Cui;

Prof. Dr. Peng Wang;

Prof. Dr. Sungmo Moon.

The Section “Computation and Simulation on Metals” of Metals (ISSN: 2075-4701) is recruiting Editorial Board Members. The Section Editor-in-Chief is Prof. Dr. Xing-Qiu Chen from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. You can check out the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sectioneditors/computation_simulation_metals.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Providing scientific supervision for the Section;
• Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggesting hot topics for Special Issues;
• Making decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promoting this Section, recommending international conference cooperation, and assisting this Section in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Providing feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal.

For more information about this Section and publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/computation_simulation_metals.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Mr. Humphrey Wu (humphrey.wu@mdpi.com) from the Metals Editorial Office.

The Section “Additive Manufacturing” of Metals is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check out the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/additive_manufacturing.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Providing scientific supervision for the Section;
• Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggesting hot topics for Special Issues;
• Making decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promoting this Section, recommending international conference cooperation, and assisting this Section in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Providing feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal.

This Section of Metals covers the field of additive manufacturing, focusing on the innovative nature of additive manufacturing and its broad applications. The scope of this Section covers the following aspects:

• Metals and alloys additive manufacturing;
• Thermal and mechanical modeling related to additive manufacturing;
• Additive manufacturing processes;
• Effects of additive manufacturing leading to metals/alloys and metallic objects;
• Applications of additive manufacturing.

For more information about this Section and publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/additive_manufacturing.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Maggie Guo (maggie.guo@mdpi.com), the Section Managing Editor.

This serves to announce to our valued authors based in Japan that value-added tax, or consumption tax will now be imposed on article processing fees and other service fees for all papers submitted, or resubmitted (assigned new paper IDs), effective from 15 August 2021. The change is in accordance with the Japanese "Act for Partial Revision of the Income Tax Act and Other Acts" (Act No. 9 of 2015), which includes a revision of consumption taxation on cross-border supplies of services such as digital content distribution.

For additional information from the National Tax Agency please see here ("Cross-border supplies of electronic services").

Contact: Setsuko Nishihara, MDPI Tokyo

The Section “Biobased and Biodegradable Metals” of Metals is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check out the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/biobased_biodegradable_metals.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Providing scientific supervision for the Section;
• Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggesting hot topics for Special Issues;
• Making decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promoting this Section, recommending international conference cooperation, and assisting this Section in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Providing feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal.

This Section of Metals covers the broad field of biomaterials, focusing on recent biomedical materials, to provide a summary of the latest results in the development and production of modern biomedical materials used in contemporary medicine and dentistry. Biomedical alloys are designed to take a form that can direct, through interactions with living systems, the course of any therapeutic or diagnostic procedure. Metals are currently used for medical devices, and over 70% of medical implants consist of metals, of which over 90% are orthopedic implants. Despite many metallic medical devices being in use today, they are predominantly made up of only a few metals. In this sense, in recent decades, metallic alloys have been used in the biomedical field due to their low elastic modulus, good fatigue strength and formability, and corrosion resistance. In this Section of Metals, we intend to gather the main research results from various areas related to the development, processing, and use of metallic alloys for biomedical applications. Topics of interest comprise the design and processing of biomedical alloys, titanium-based alloys, zirconium-based alloys, biodegradable alloys, porous alloys, mechanical properties of biomedical alloys, corrosion resistance of biomedical alloys, the biocompatibility of biomedical alloys, and characterization techniques.

For more information about this Section and publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/biobased_biodegradable_metals.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Mr. Humphrey Wu (humphrey.wu@mdpi.com) at the Metals Editorial Office.

The Section “Powder Metallurgy” of Metals is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sectioneditors/powder_metallurgy.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Providing scientific supervision for the Section;
• Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggesting hot topics for Special Issues;
• Making decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer-review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promoting this Section, recommending international conference cooperation, and assisting this Section in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Providing feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal.

This Section of Metals covers the field of powder metallurgy, focusing on a wider understanding of powder development, characterization, shaping, modeling, and powder metallurgy materials. Powder metallurgy allows for a better microstructural design and control, including the opportunities that the nanoscale field offers, allowing competition with other forming technologies in the development of high-performance materials for applications where extreme conditions can be expected. All metallic materials are considered, as well as metal matrix composites, hard metals, and tailored microstructural materials. Full-density materials, porous materials, and foams developed through specific routes of powder metallurgy are also considered.

The Section will cover any technology that can produce and tailor metallic powders (including atomizing, mechanical alloying, granulation or agglomeration techniques, chemical processes, etc.), conventional powder metallurgy technologies, such as press and sintering, special methods of assisted sintering (liquid phase sintering, microwave sintering, field assisted sintering), metal injection molding, and technologies that provide full-density materials (hot pressing, hot isostatic pressing, powder extrusion, sinter forging, etc.). Powder-based methods for developing materials by additive manufacturing will also be covered in the Section.

For more information about this Section and publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/powder_metallurgy.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Lyra Xing (lyra.xing@mdpi.com), the Section Managing Editor.

The Section “Corrosion and Protection” of Metals is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sectioneditors/corrosion_protection.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Providing scientific supervision for the Section;
• Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggesting hot topics for Special Issues;
• Making decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer-review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promoting this Section, recommending international conference cooperation, and assisting this Section in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Providing feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal.

This Section of Metals covers the degradation of materials via corrosion and the methods and mechanisms to protect them. It focuses on the corrosion phenomenon, including advanced mechanisms, efficient testing techniques and the main influencing factors, and finding the most suitable procedures to avoid or slow down its propagation, such as coatings, inhibitors or cathodic protection, among others.

For more information about this Section and publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/corrosion_protection.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Betty Jin (betty.jin@mdpi.com) from the Metals Editorial Office.

The Section “Extractive Metallurgy” of Metals is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sectioneditors/hydrometallurgy_pyrometallurgy.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Providing scientific supervision for the Section;
• Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggesting hot topics for Special Issues;
• Taking decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer-review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promoting this Section, recommending international conference cooperation, and assisting this Section in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Providing feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal.

This Section of Metals covers the broad field of metal production and focuses on a deeper understanding of the routes and mechanisms for the extraction of metals from primary raw materials (concentrates, mining, and mineral processing waste) and the recovery of metals from secondary raw materials (scrap, end-of-life products, industrial waste, intermediates) through recycling. The Section also covers not only processes based on reaction chemistries but also processes from the field of special metallurgy, e.g., physical refining.

For more information about this Section and publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/hydrometallurgy_pyrometallurgy.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Mr. Toliver Guo (toliver.guo@mdpi.com) at the Metals Editorial Office.

The Section “Metal Failure Analysis” of Metals is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sectioneditors/metal_failure_analysis.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Provide scientific supervision for the Section;
• Invite distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggest hot topics for Special Issues;
• Make decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer-review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promote this Section, recommend international conference cooperation, and assist in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Provide feedback and suggest improvements for the journal.

This Section of Metals covers the broad field of failure processes. The main focus of this Section is related to the correlation of failure with the structure and the microstructure of metals and metal welds with their properties.

For more information about this Section, or publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/metal_failure_analysis.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Mrs. Sammi Meng (sammi.meng@mdpi.com) from the Metals Editorial Office.