{"title":"Advancements and challenges of industrial-level acidic CO2 electrolysis","authors":"Shuchao Shen, Kang Yang, Guoliang Xu, Sheng Chen, César Ortiz-Ledón, Jingjing Duan","doi":"10.1002/metm.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/metm.28","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The use of green renewable energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) into valuable chemicals and fuels through CO<sub>2</sub> electrolysis technology (also known as electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> reduction reaction, eCO<sub>2</sub>RR) is an advantageous technology, which could greatly aid the global carbon-neutral goal. Although progress has been made in alkaline/neutral media, low carbon conversion efficiency to target products, carbonate/bicarbonate salt precipitation, and blockage of electrode holes caused by CO<sub>2</sub> are not conducive to industrial applications. Acidic media could address these issues; however, in these conditions, there are other challenges that need to be addressed, such as hydrogen evolution, poor tolerance of electrocatalysts, and electrolysers. This review discusses recent advances in industrial-level acidic CO<sub>2</sub> electrolysis, including reaction mechanisms, electrocatalysts, and device design, aiming to promote its commercialization. In addition, a comprehensive evaluation strategy of an acidic eCO<sub>2</sub>RR system is proposed, and perspectives are provided based on related discussion.</p>","PeriodicalId":100919,"journal":{"name":"MetalMat","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/metm.28","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143186384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Table of Content","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/metm.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/metm.27","url":null,"abstract":"<p>No abstract is available for this article.</p>","PeriodicalId":100919,"journal":{"name":"MetalMat","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/metm.27","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MetalMat: Unveiling the transformative power of metals in science and technology","authors":"Elena Pereloma, Jun Sun","doi":"10.1002/metm.25","DOIUrl":"10.1002/metm.25","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the dawn of civilization, metals have been integral to the fabric of modern society, shaping our technological landscape, and driving innovation across diverse industries. The intrinsic allure of metals lies in their versatility, strength, and adaptability, qualities that have propelled humanity towards new frontiers of scientific discovery and technological advancement. As we embark on this groundbreaking journey with MetalMat, the premier Wiley open access journal dedicated to metals in science and technology, we celebrate the enduring legacy and transformative potential of these remarkable materials.</p><p>At the core of MetalMat's mission lies a fundamental drive to deepen our understanding of the atomic and microstructural intricacies of metals, paving the way for the design of cutting-edge alloys with advanced properties tailored for specific applications. This prestigious publication is poised to explore the pivotal function of materials in advancing society, with a keen focus on addressing pressing global challenges such as climate change, sustainability, and other critical issues that define our present and shape our future.</p><p>MetalMat stands as a beacon of excellence, providing a platform for cutting-edge scientific and engineering research on both structural and functional metallic materials. The journal's scope encompasses a wide array of topics, ranging from the design, processing, and characterization of metals, alloys, intermetallics, and metal-matrix composites/compounds to the diverse applications of functional metallic materials in interdisciplinary research domains.</p><p>As the first Wiley open access journal dedicated to metal-related topics, MetalMat is poised to revolutionize the field by fostering a vibrant exchange of ideas and discoveries among researchers, scientists, and experts from around the world. With unwavering support from the international research community, MetalMat has assembled a stellar team of experts representing a diverse array of countries, including Australia, China, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Japan, Singapore, UK, and the USA. This esteemed editorial board ensures that MetalMat not only pushes the boundaries of materials science but also serves as a guiding light, shaping the future of metallic materials research and fostering global collaboration.</p><p>One of the hallmarks of MetalMat is its commitment to an open-access publication model, which ensures that all published articles are freely accessible to a global audience. The journal's dedicated editorial team maintains an efficient review process, with an average turnaround time of approximately 1 month, to ensure the timely dissemination of cutting-edge research in the field. MetalMat welcomes a diverse range of contributions, including original research articles, comprehensive reviews, insightful perspectives, and short communications, all of which contribute to the vibrant tapestry of knowledge in this dynamic field.</p><p>A","PeriodicalId":100919,"journal":{"name":"MetalMat","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/metm.25","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141819230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topological quantum materials for spintronics","authors":"Jinyu Duan, Shuai Hu, Ping Wang, Delin Zhang, Yong Jiang","doi":"10.1002/metm.24","DOIUrl":"10.1002/metm.24","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Spintronics is an innovative field that exploits the intrinsic spin property of electrons instead of their charge, holding the promise of revolutionizing conventional electronic devices. Over the past decade, researchers have been actively exploring new materials as potential replacements for traditional spintronic materials. This endeavor is driven by the aspiration to create spintronic devices with ultralow power consumption, ultrahigh storage density, and remarkable stability. In recent years, topological quantum materials (TQMs) have attracted considerable interest due to their unique band structure and exceptional properties. These materials carry the potential to pave the way for breakthroughs in the design of spintronic devices, offering promising solutions to solve challenges currently faced in the field of spintronics. In this review, we first introduce the properties of various TQMs, including band structure and crucial transport properties. Subsequently, we focus on the diverse applications of TQMs in spintronics. Delving further, we discuss the current challenges and the potential directions for advancing and exploring TQMs.</p>","PeriodicalId":100919,"journal":{"name":"MetalMat","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/metm.24","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141370461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiangyu Gao, Guodong Chen, Jinran Sun, Shanmu Dong, Guanglei Cui
{"title":"A review on realizing rechargeable batteries based on SOCl2/SO2 electrolyte systems","authors":"Xiangyu Gao, Guodong Chen, Jinran Sun, Shanmu Dong, Guanglei Cui","doi":"10.1002/metm.19","DOIUrl":"10.1002/metm.19","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As representative high-energy density primary batteries, Li-SOCl<sub>2</sub> and Li-SO<sub>2</sub> batteries possess superiorities including high working potential, long temperature range, low self-discharge rate and high safety compared with other conventional primary batteries. In spite of the high energy features, these devices have only been applied for single discharge rather than achieved energy cyclic utilization via recharge. Various modifying strategies have been put out concerning the two electrolyte systems to liberate theoretical energy storage capability as much as possible over decades. Nevertheless, reversible chemistry is also urgently required nowadays for these sulfur-based electrolyte primary batteries to achieve transformation and upgrading. In the review, we collect some of the modification works for Li-SOCl<sub>2</sub> and Li-SO<sub>2</sub> primary batteries since their invention and successively introduce some of the opening research studies of secondary batteries, designed technologies of which are demonstrated through aspects through anode interface, cathode materials, and electrolyte composition. Finally, it is aiming to look further into the future development of the reversibility of the unique electrolyte systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":100919,"journal":{"name":"MetalMat","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/metm.19","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140999938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A review of the microstructure and tensile behavior of additively manufactured metastable β Ti alloys","authors":"Elena Pereloma","doi":"10.1002/metm.17","DOIUrl":"10.1002/metm.17","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This review summarizes and critically discusses the current knowledge on the microstructures and tensile properties of metastable <i>β</i> Ti alloys fabricated by selective laser melting and laser metal deposition techniques. The effects of post-heat treatments are also addressed. The spatial variations in the microstructure and properties are linked with the processing parameters. The review also compares the additively manufactured and post heat-treated metastable <i>β</i> Ti alloys with their wrought counterparts. It highlights the research questions for further investigations.</p>","PeriodicalId":100919,"journal":{"name":"MetalMat","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/metm.17","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140714210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overview of application of automated SEM/EDS measurements for inclusion characterization in steelmaking","authors":"Shashank Ramesh Babu, Susanne K. Michelic","doi":"10.1002/metm.18","DOIUrl":"10.1002/metm.18","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The scanning electron microscope equipped with an energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) is considered as a state-of-the-art characterization tool to determine the morphological features and the chemical composition of non-metallic inclusions in steel. Such a characterization is pivotal to assessing the steel quality, which influences the properties of end products. This paper offers a comprehensive review of the SEM/EDS system, tracing its historical developments and methodological advancements by various research groups which have contributed to non-metallic inclusion analysis. Then the discussions transition to developments that have matured the SEM/EDS platform. The paper highlights selected examples utilizing the SEM/EDS to examine inclusions across various steel grades and at different stages of the metallurgical process. Finally, latest advancements in integrating machine learning techniques to expedite the analysis process were discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":100919,"journal":{"name":"MetalMat","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/metm.18","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140716781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparation, processing, and application of ultrathin lithium metal","authors":"Shaozhen Huang, Wenhao Li, Yu Zhang, Tianbao Li, Yuejiao Chen, Guichao Kuang, Wen Liu, Zhiyuan He, Zhibin Wu, Libao Chen","doi":"10.1002/metm.16","DOIUrl":"10.1002/metm.16","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lithium metal is a promising electrode material for next-generation high-energy-density rechargeable batteries with its high theoretical capacity (3860 mAh g<sup>−1</sup>) and low standard electrode potential (−3.04 V vs. SHE). However, the special physicochemical properties of lithium metal, including low tensile strength, viscoplastic creep, and high reactivity hinder the processing and preparation of lithium strips toward ultrathin thickness (≤20 μm). Developing new matrixes, interfaces, and processing methods can be promising for overcoming these problems. This review summarizes the physicochemical properties of lithium metal and the design principles for preparing the ultrathin Li metal, and concludes the recent development in this field from the perspective of processing design, and proposes to provide in-depth understanding of reliable fabrication of ultrathin lithium metal strips, and prospects the challenges and opportunities of ultrathin-scale preparation and processing of lithium metal.</p>","PeriodicalId":100919,"journal":{"name":"MetalMat","volume":"1 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/metm.16","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140755630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. A. Vandermeer, X. C. Lei, E. F. F. Knipschildt-Okkels, F. Lin, R. E. Sanders, D. Juul Jensen
{"title":"Advanced microstructural path modeling of primary recrystallization in aluminum alloys AA5182 and AA5657","authors":"R. A. Vandermeer, X. C. Lei, E. F. F. Knipschildt-Okkels, F. Lin, R. E. Sanders, D. Juul Jensen","doi":"10.1002/metm.15","DOIUrl":"10.1002/metm.15","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When analyzing recrystallization kinetics data, it is extremely important to use a model, which has appropriate assumptions for nucleation and growth, including spatial distribution of nuclei, nucleation rate, growth rate, and directionality. In the present work, we reveal how advanced microstructural path modeling (MPM) can successfully fit kinetics data for the complex recrystallization of two different industrial aluminum alloys. Simpler models have failed to fit the data over the entire recrystallization period. The new model allows for spatially clustered nucleation and for different growth rates in different sample directions, whereby the grains evolve with an aspect ratio different from 1. Based on the MPM analysis, the specific nucleation and growth parameters as well as the recrystallized grain sizes are deduced, and the recrystallization characteristics of the two alloys are compared. The work demonstrates the power of quantitative metallography and the wealth of recrystallization information that may be obtained from MPM modeling of such stereological data.</p>","PeriodicalId":100919,"journal":{"name":"MetalMat","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/metm.15","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140250501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}