Dear Colleagues,
I am writing this email in regards to a special issue being organized by me focused on "Mechanical Behavior of Interfaces in Materials" for the Journal of Materials Science along with Dr. Rajendran, Dr. Namburu, and Dr. Dubey.. . This special issue aims to address the links between the various characteristics of the interfaces (structural, chemical) and the response under various mechanical loading environments. A description of the scope is below:
Background/Scope:
The response/performance of technologically relevant materials in various applications is determined by the presence and evolution of various interfaces when materials are subjected to mechanical loading environments. A fundamental understanding of the links between the various characteristics of the interfaces (structural, chemical) and the response under various mechanical loading environments is a critical challenge that needs to be addressed to exploit and tailor new physical properties of materials for the next-generation applications. This special issue aims to address this challenge by focusing on the identification of the role of interfaces as well as the characterization of the mechanisms relating the various interface phenomena to the microstructural evolution and/or properties/behavior of materials.
Special Issue articles may summarize the latest developments, open questions, and longer-term needs in the understanding of the mechanical behavior of interfaces across multiple scales in several thematic areas of materials research. The emphasis will be on latest advances in the investigation and understanding of various interface phenomena towards materials design, novel synthesis methods, and characterization in structural materials, biomaterials, electronic, magnetic, energetic, polymeric & organic materials, etc. using theoretical, computational and experimental methods.
More information about the Journal of Materials Science (Impact Factor of 2.3) and the submission instructions can be found at the link:http://link.springer.com/journal/10853
Submissions Open: June 15, 2017
Submissions Close: August 15, 2017
Please send an email to dongare [at] uconn.edu if you are interested in submitting an article for this special issue along with a title of your submission.
The following authors have committed to contributing a regular/review article for this special issue:
Prof. Amit Misra, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Prof. K. T. Ramesh, Johns Hopkins University
Prof. Irene Beyerlein, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. John Clayton, US Army Research Laboratory
Dr. Mark Tschopp, US Army Research Laboratory
Prof. Suveen, Mathaudhu, University of California – Riverside
Prof. Yusuf Khan, University of Connecticut
Prof. Evan J. Reed, Stanford University
Prof. Mohammed Zikry, North Carolina State University
Prof. Peter Chung, University of Maryland, College Park
Prof. Simon Phillpot, University of Florida, Gainesville
Prof. Mitra Taheri, Drexel University
Prof. Wayne Chen, Purdue University
Prof. Anter El-Azab, Purdue University
Dr. Benjamin Liu, Los Alamos National Lab
Prof. Shailendra Joshi, National University of Singapore
Prof. Vikas Tomar, Purdue University
Prof. Ioannis Chassiotis, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Prof. Mohsen Asle Zaeem, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Prof. Andrew Gouldstone, Northeastern University
Prof. Hanchen Huang, Northeastern University
Prof. Javier llorca, IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain
Prof. Yaroslava Yingling, North Carolina State University
Prof. Diana Farkas, Virginia Tech
Prof. Wei Cai, Stanford University
Prof. Srivilliputhur, Srinivasan, University of North Texas
Prof. Satyesh Yadav, IIT Chennai
Best regards,
Avinash M. Dongare