Materials for Extreme Environments

Dear Colleagues,

There is a strong need for high-performance materials that can withstand extreme environments to enable new technologies to meet the increasing global demand for energy, improve health, and enable exploration of new frontiers on this planet as well as beyond. Some of these extreme environments involve very high or very low temperatures, high pressures, deformation at high strain rates, nuclear and electromagnetic radiation, and corrosion and oxidation, to name a few. A fundamental understanding of material response, performance degradation, and failure initiation is critical since materials can behave in very unpredictable ways when placed in these extreme environments. We would like to invite academics and researchers to contribute to this Special Issue on “Materials for Extreme Environments”, which is intended to serve as a unique multidisciplinary forum covering material response in extreme environments of myriad forms. The potential topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Cryogenic and Refractory Materials
2. Nuclear and Solar Energy Materials
3. Materials for Biological Environments
4. Corrosion and Materials Degradation
5. Energy Storage under Extreme Environments
6. Modeling and Simulations of Materials under Extreme Environments
7. Computational Approaches to Understanding Materials Degradation
8. High Strain-rate Deformation and Shock Physics
9. Ceramic Materials for Extreme Environments
10. Sensor Materials for Extreme Environments

Dr. Sundeep Mukherjee
Prof. Dr. Jincheng Du
Topic Editors