Stainless Steel for a Sustainable Future

Dear Colleagues,

Stainless steels are a crucial class of materials to many aspects of human lives, such as architecture, transportation, and our daily routines. In particular, the synergies between their superior durability, recyclability, and economic advantages make them stand out among other materials, which, nowadays, benefits the increasing demands in environmental protection. Without a doubt, it is globally impactful to establish a comprehensive understanding of the structure–property-sustainability relationships in these materials. Ultimately, on top of these relationships, we can select the right grade of stainless steels for a given project.

In this Special Issue, we aim to share and discuss research findings on science and designs of sustainable stainless steels, which covers the following but is not limited to:

• environmental (corrosion, oxidization, creep, wear, fatigue, etc.) resistances to hazardous conditions;
• phase stability and microstructural evolution and their couplings to long-term behaviors of materials;
• correlations of lattice defects (point defects, stacking faults, twinning, dislocations, etc.) with the improvement or degradation of mechanical and physical responses;
• general investigations of alloying effects and compositional engineering on developing desired properties.

Other topics involving advances in fabrication processes and functional properties for a sustainable future are also welcomed. Both experimental and theoretical tools, as well as their hybrids, are acceptable in studying these topics.

The above broad topics are under current research spotlights. While this Special Issue will contribute to the existing literature in terms of all these topics, we are also thrilled to accept novel works that are beyond the horizon of the present proposal. Here, we gratefully invite you to submit manuscripts to this exciting Special Issue. We are open to full articles, rapid communications, and literature reviews.

Dr. Yifeng Wu
Guest Editor

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 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly 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 2400 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.

• corrosion
• oxidization
• creep
• wear
• fatigue
• phase stability
• microstructure
• point defect
• stacking fault
• twinning
• dislocation
• alloying effect
• compositional engineering