Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will be driven to investigate high-performance metal matrix composites (MMCs) with solutions borrowed from biological materials such as nacre of shell, tuning and retention of unique nanoparticle physical properties in composites, heterogeneous structuring of materials across multiple length scales, and smart powder processing to produce advance fed materials with the capability of concurrently improving the strength and ductility of advanced materials. This Special Issue aims to:
(1) Fabricate and develop high-performance metal matrix composites, especially aluminum-based composites, emphasizing and tailoring the architectural designs to overcome the trade-off of strength and ductility in metal matrix composites, as a critical need of automotive and aerospace engineering fields.
(2) Study and develop a heterostructure strategy for toughening particulate-reinforced metal matrix composites through the powder assembly route of powder metallurgy to design the architecture of various particulate metal matrix composites with high strength and high ductility.
(3) Develop new engineered particulates with tailored properties using dry particle coating (as a smart powder processing) for use as advanced high strength-to-weight ratio metal matrix composite materials; this includes high effective core–shell structures, advanced powder materials with deactivated sintering properties, highly enhanced discharge capacity retention in lithium-ion batteries, and attaining an excellent uniform dispersion with maximum structural integrity, especially for nano-carbons reinforcements (CNTs and graphene).
(4) Studying and focusing on the changing properties that occur throughout the processing and operation of metal matrix composites to seek widely-applicable property relationships, emphasizing and utilizing the opportunities made available by core–shelled powders prepared by smart dry processing.
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2024.
Dr. Behzad Sadeghi
Dr. Catalin I. Pruncu
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