Powder Synthesis and Processing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In powder metallurgy, synthesis and processing are two of the most important steps. Recent progress in the development of tailored powders to control the microstructure and properties of the final products for specific applications have been performed. Progress in mature technologies and advances in new technologies for the processing are depending on fine understanding of the chemical, physical and mechanical mechanisms driving the powder route. Modeling, both analytical and numerical, of these mechanisms and of their coupling is an essential step for the development of new materials with complex shapes and/or tailored properties.
Prof. Dr. Claude Estournès
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Tailored powders with innovative methods via chemical engineering (solution precipitation, fluid phase) to mechanical methods (high energy milling, mechanical alloying)
- Reactor engineering for innovative powders
- Surface functionalization and core-shell particle
- Modeling of powder synthesis
- Powder forging
- Metal injection molding
- Field assisted sintering (SPS, microwave, flash sintering, dynamic compaction, etc.)
- Additive manufacturing
- Reactive sintering
- Near-net complex shape processes (hot-pressing, powder injection molding, sinter-forging, ECAS, etc.)
- Controlled microstructure and microstructure development (ultra-fine grains, functionally graded materials, porous materials, etc.)
- Self-assembly and tailored nanostructures
- Powder processing modeling
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Published Papers
Metals - ISSN 2075-4701