Design and Synthesis of High/Medium Entropy Materials for Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (17 October 2023) | Viewed by 441
Special Issue Editor
Interests: photovoltaic functional thin film materials synthesis and characterization of gallium oxide films; thermal sensitive films; high entropy oxide films
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is not just clean energy and clean water that play key roles in our life. One of the biggest challenges in the sustainable development of material science is the tremendous increase in the demand for material resources. For instance, in the last 40 years, global material extraction increased threefold, reaching more than 90 billion tonnes. In the next 40 years, this is projected to increase to more than 180 billion tonnes. [UN Environment, International Resource Panel, Global Resource Outlook 2019].
To meet the unsustainable demand for material resources, bulk ceramic materials could be replaced by thin film materials with less weight and better functionality. Or, with the aid of AI, the design of the materials could reduce the number of unnecessary experiments with much less material consumption.
This Special Issue will focus on the design strategies and synthesis of High/Medium Entropy Materials. The advances in these aspects will facilitate the sustainability of materials.
Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- High/Medium Entropy Materials design by AI.
- Theoretical Calculation and Simulation of High/Medium-Entropy Materials.
- Synthesis and Characterization of High/Medium-Entropy Materials.
- Versatile Application of High/Medium-Entropy Materials.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Wei Ren
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- machine learning
- AI
- high entropy
- medium entropy
- alloy
- oxide
- nitride
