Lightweight Metal Alloys & Metal Matrix Composites

Dear Colleagues,

The advancement of technologies is supported by new materials and/or functional modification of existing materials. Light metals such as aluminium (Al) and magnesium (Mg) have immense potential to cater for the current and emerging technologies, such as in automotive, aviation, defense, biomedical, sporting equipment, consumer electronics, etc. Al and Mg are attractive material candidates due in part to their light weight, energy efficiency and environmental friendliness.

With Al and Mg, new alloys/composites are being developed to effectively match the demands in industries, by (i) materials design, (ii) new manufacturing technologies such as additive manufacturing, spark plasma sintering, microwave sintering, etc., and (iii) microstructural manipulation via heat treatments, deformation processing, etc.

This Special Issue on ‘Light-Weight Metal Alloys and Metal Matrix Composites’, invites technical articles and reviews on the advancement of light-weight materials and their performance. The issue aims to present a collection of state-of-the-art research works to the scientific community. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, (i) materials design, (ii) materials processing, (iii) characterization and properties evaluation such as physical, mechanical and surface properties and (iv) processing–microstructure–properties correlation. The issue considers both experimental and theoretical research works.

Dr. R. Arvind Singh
Dr. Jayalakshmi Subramanian
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Metals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.