Advanced Light Alloys in China
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystalline Metals and Alloys".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 April 2022)
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Interests: metals and alloys; nanomaterials; dislocations; strengthening mechanisms; crystallography; phase transformation; electron microscopy; X-ray diffraction; tomography
Special Issue Information
Light alloys are used widely in aerospace, automotive, architectural, packaging, electrical, and electronic applications. With the rise of advanced manufacturing in China, an increasingly strong demand for lighter, stronger, lower cost and more environment-friendly light alloys has driven the development of advanced light alloys with improved properties and performance. In the past decade, significant progress has been made in the fundamental and applied research of light alloys and in the development of advanced characterization techniques used for the study of light alloys. New strategies and concepts have been adopted to strengthen aluminum alloys to reach a strength level above 1 GPa; novel microstructural design approaches have been invented and applied to the development of magnesium alloys with an improved combination of strength-ductility; and advanced electron microscopy techniques have been developed enabling atomic chemical mapping of light alloy elements and three-dimensional visualization of complex dislocation structures in light alloys. In this Special Issue, the latest developments with respect to the microstructural design, processing, manufacturing, and characterization of light alloys in China will be documented, and the future trends in this field will be discussed.
Prof. Dr. Xiaoxu Huang
Dr. Zongqiang Feng
Guest Editors
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