Metallic Functional Materials: Development and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Metallic functional materials refer to metallic materials with special physical, chemical, or biological properties that are used for non-structural purposes. They cover a wide range of fields, including shape memory alloys, metallic magnetic materials, amorphous alloys, energy materials, biological materials, THz metamaterials, and nanometal materials. In recent decades, with the great advancement in the development and design of new types of metallic functional materials, increasingly more novel materials and their functional properties have been explored in the research. Meanwhile, to satisfy the progressive requirements in the field of aerospace, as well as aeronautical, automotive, electronic, and bio-medical applications, more efficient material designs and developments are necessary. The current Special Issue of Metals focuses on the latest developments of metallic functional materials, including new functional properties and applications, efficient design methods (high-throughput multiscale materials computing and machine learning), novel synthesis and processing methods (additive manufacturing), and advanced technologies in material characterizations (interactions with radiation, and diffraction and scattering techniques).

We invite submissions of manuscripts to this Special Issue that address the listed topics.

Prof. Dr. Changlong Tan
Dr. Kun Zhang
Dr. Yan Feng
Guest Editors

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