Functional Materials Sintered by FAST/SPS—From Research to Industry

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue addresses several topics related to FAST/SPS technology and related advanced sintering technologies, materials, and finished products.

FAST/SPS is a powder metallurgy technique in which a loose or loosely bonded powder is consolidated under external pressure at an elevated temperature (below the melting point). The main advantages of the FAST/SPS method over conventional powder metallurgy processes are its efficiency, fast heating and cooling rates, thanks to the Joule effect, and the faster consolidation of the materials, since the Joule effect at the contact area increases temperature locally and intensifies diffusion, the main sintering mechanism. Another advantage of this technique, resulting from the short process time, is related to the possibility to sinter materials without significant grain growth, which is of fundamental importance in the manufacturing of nanomaterials. The FAST/SPS technique is considered to be a key technology for a new generation of materials (metals and alloys, ceramics, composites, semiconductors, etc.).

The organizers of the 2nd Conference on FAST/SPS: From Research to Industry invite everyone interested in the conference’s topic, particularly academic and research institutions as well as companies using FAST/SPS technology, to participate. This year’s second conference edition will only be in a stationary form in Warsaw, Poland.

We invite all of the conference participants to publish their research in the Special Issue of Materials (impact factor: 3.748) dedicated to “FAST/SPS: From Research to Industry”.

Dr. Rafał Zybała
Dr. Dariusz Garbiec
Dr. Piotr Klimczyk
Dr. Marcin Chmielewski
Guest Editors

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• materials engineering
• sintering
• field-assisted sintering technique
• spark plasma sintering
• metals
• cermics
• composites
• functional materials
• microstructure
• applications