Metals | Top 10 Highly Cited Papers in 2021 in the Section “Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals”

The “Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals” Section of Metals (ISSN: 2075-4701) covers the fields of transition and rare metal extraction, purification, deformation, physical and mechanical behaviors, characterization, shaping, modeling, materials design, and medium- and high-entropy alloys.

As all the articles published in our journal are in an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text. We welcome you to read the top ten selected papers published in 2021 listed below:

“Review of Recent Research on AlCoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy”
by Marzena Tokarewicz and Małgorzata Grądzka-Dahlke
Metals 2021, 11(8), 1302; https://doi.org/10.3390/met11081302
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/8/1302

“Grain Boundary Diffusion Sources and Their Coating Methods for Nd-Fe-B Permanent Magnets”
by Jiayi He, Jiali Cao, Zhigao Yu, Wenyue Song, Hongya Yu, Mozaffar Hussain and Zhongwu Liu
Metals 2021, 11(9), 1434; https://doi.org/10.3390/met11091434
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/9/1434

“Novel Co-Cu-Based Immiscible Medium-Entropy Alloys with Promising Mechanical Properties”
by Sujung Son, Jongun Moon, Hyeonseok Kwon, Peyman Asghari Rad, Hidemi Kato and Hyoung Seop Kim
Metals 2021, 11(2), 238; https://doi.org/10.3390/met11020238
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/2/238

“On the Microstructure and Properties of the Nb-23Ti-5Si-5Al-5Hf-5V-2Cr-2Sn (at.%) Silicide-Based Alloy—RM(Nb)IC”
by Nikos Vellios, Paul Keating and Panos Tsakiropoulos
Metals 2021, 11(11), 1868; https://doi.org/10.3390/met11111868
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/11/1868

“Full Variation of Site Substitution in Ni-Mn-Ga by Ferromagnetic Transition Metals”
by Vít Kopecký, Michal Rameš, Petr Veřtát, Ross H. Colman and Oleg Heczko
Metals 2021, 11(6), 850; https://doi.org/10.3390/met11060850
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/6/850

“An Investigation of the Miscibility Gap Controlling Phase Formation in Refractory Metal High Entropy Superalloys via the Ti-Nb-Zr Constituent System”
by Tamsin E. Whitfield, George J. Wise, Ed J. Pickering, Howard J. Stone and Nicholas G. Jones
Metals 2021, 11(8), 1244; https://doi.org/10.3390/met11081244
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/8/1244

“Manipulation of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties in N-Doped CoCrFeMnNi High-Entropy Alloys”
by Jing Zhang, Kook Noh Yoon, Min Seok Kim, Heh Sang Ahn, Ji Young Kim, Wook Ha Ryu and Eun Soo Park
Metals 2021, 11(9), 1487; https://doi.org/10.3390/met11091487
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/9/1487

“Neutron Scattering as a Powerful Tool to Investigate Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys: A Review”
by Natalia A. Río-López, Patricia Lázpita, Daniel Salazar, Viktor I. Petrenko, Fernando Plazaola, Volodymyr Chernenko and Jose M. Porro
Metals 2021, 11(5), 829; https://doi.org/10.3390/met11050829
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/5/829

“Effects of La on Thermal Stability, Phase Formation and Magnetic Properties of Fe–Co–Ni–Si–B–La High Entropy Alloys”
by Jiaming Li, Jianliang Zuo and Hongya Yu
Metals 2021, 11(12), 1907; https://doi.org/10.3390/met11121907
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/12/1907

“External-Field-Induced Phase Transformation and Associated Properties in a Ni₅₀Mn₃₄Fe₃In₁₃ Metamagnetic Shape Memory Wire”
by Zhen Chen, Daoyong Cong, Shilei Li, Yin Zhang, Shaohui Li, Yuxian Cao, Shengwei Li, Chao Song, Yang Ren and Yandong Wang
Metals 2021, 11(2), 309; https://doi.org/10.3390/met11020309
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/11/2/309