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The literature database covers Japanese-language technical reports published in Japan from 1962 to 2002. Each report concerns the development of steel materials containing niobium, or contains research published in Japan dealing with the methods of using niobium in steel production. With the permission of the original publishers below, 539 reports from the following technical journals have been compiled into the English abstract database.
Owing to the original publisher's favor and understanding of this project, the service is realized in the present form. The most important conclusions of the reports have been summarized without impairing their originality. The database was developed on the basis of careful study by specialists commissioned by CBMM. The successful creation of this database owes a great debt to the contributions of the following seven committee members.
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| Special Issue: | “Advanced Materials for Hydrogen Energy Applications” |
The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Advanced Materials for Hydrogen Energy Applications” as April 2011. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from many countries for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Societal demands for materials related to hydrogen energy are expected to become increasingly heavy from the viewpoint of high-level energy security as well as because we need to address the urgent issue for realizing Low-Carbon-Emission Society. It is, therefore, important and indispensable to systematically study and promote the information exchange about the advanced materials for hydrogen production, hydrogen separation/purification, and hydrogen storage/transportation. This special issue is to summarize the recent studies on “ Advanced Materials for Hydrogen Energy Applications” .
Topics:
Hydrogen Production, Hydrogen Separation/Purification, Hydrogen Storage/Transportation, Hydrides
Manuscripts due: October 1, 2010.
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| Special Issue: | “Advanced Materials Science in Bulk Nanostructured Metals” |
The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Advanced Materials Science in Bulk Nanostructured Metals” January 2012. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from many countries for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Structural metallic materials used in our society are generally polycrystals composed of crystallites or grains with different crystallographic orientations. It is well known that decreasing the grain size of polycrystals leads to an improvement in mechanical properties of metals such as strength and toughness. Grain refinement is therefore one of the most important strategies to control the mechanical properties of metals and alloys. Severe plastic deformation and other new processes have been recently invented and well established to dramatically improve the properties of metals, enabling to produce bulk-scale metallic metals having the average grain size smaller than 1 μm, that is so-called “bulk nanostructured metals”. Bulk nanostructured metals are characterized by a high density of grain boundaries. Since the grain boundaries interact with crystal defects such as dislocations, bulk nanostructured metals have potential to show properties significantly different from those in conventionally grained metals. In fact, it has been found in many studies within the last decade that bulk nanostructured metals exhibit various kinds of unexpected and surprising properties, beyond the traditional metallurgical knowledge.
This special issue aims to collect recent studies on bulk nanostructured metals all over the world, including experimental, theoretical and computational simulation studies. The following topics will be focused in particular:
(1) Materials Design in Bulk Nanostructured Metals
(2) Fabrication of Bulk Nanostructured Metals
(3) Structures in Bulk Nanostructured Metals
(4) Mechanical and Functional Properties in Bulk Nanostructured Metals
The editors hope that this special issue plays a significant role to establish an advanced materials science in bulk nanostructured metals.
Topics:
Nanostructured metals; Nanocrystalline metals; Ultrafine grained metals; Severe plastic deformation; Electrodeposition; Mechanical properties; Functional properties; Dislocation theory; Grain boundary engineering; Computational mechanics
Manuscripts due: July 31, 2011
| Special Issue: | “Advanced Tube Hydroforming Technology for Lightweight Components” |
The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Advanced Tube Hydroforming Technology for Lightweight Components” as March 2012. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from many countries for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Toward a low-carbon society with the global CO2-reduction, a weight reduction of the vehicles is one of the most indispensable technological strategies. Tube hydroforming is a key technology for producing lightweight components to realize it.
This special issue focuses not only on the recent experimental, computational and theoretical research achievements on tube hydroforming technology, but also on the industrial application development, solutions for mass production and topics concerning quality control, etc. It also includes research achievements on all aspects of related tube/sheet hydroforming technologies.
Manuscripts due: September 1, 2011
| Special Issue: | “Growth of Ecomaterials as a Key to Eco-Society V” |
The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Growth of Ecomaterials as a Key to Eco-Society V” as April 2012. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Now ecomaterials are clarified by emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches that integrate advanced materials science and engineering methods with environmental awareness to yield energy and materials efficient technologies. Particularly we are facing the changes on social system to secure energy and resources in the industrial world as well as climate change issues.
In this special issue as well as the volumes on July 2003, December 2005, December 2007 and May 2010, invited and contributed papers together with some overviews will be compiled to describe the hot discussion on the now and future movements of Ecomaterials for sustainable society in global.
Topics:
Ecomaterials, Reinventory, Life cycle assessment, Material flow analysis, Catalysis, Benign manufacturing, Green environmental profile, Higher resource productivity, Remediation & purification, Hazardous substances, Life-cycle engineering, Recycling, Design for environment
October 3, 2011
| Special Issue: | “Materials-System Integration for Fusion DEMO Blanket Design” |
The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Materials-System Integration for Fusion DEMO Blanket Design” as August 2012. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
The critical issues for fusion blanket structural materials have been considered to maintain the soundness of weld bond and joint under high energy neutron irradiation and transmutation helium generation. One of the important roles of fusion blanket is the production of tritium of which the behavior should be controlled all through the operation period. Tritium should be controlled not only for material itself but also for a whole blanket system. In this special issue, the researches on materials-system integration will be introduced with focusing on joint technology and tritium handling technology development.
Topics:
welding, joining, coating, neutron irradiation, tritium effects, isotope effects, synergism, plasma facing materials,
Manuscripts due: February 1, 2012
| Special Issue: | “Crystallographic Orientation Distribution and Related Properties in Advanced Materials III” |
The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Crystallographic Orientation Distribution and Related Properties in Advanced Materials III” as November 2012. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
Crystallographic orientation is an important factor affecting properties for crystalline materials such as metals and ceramics. Therefore, considerable attention is directed to texture control as a means to improve the properties in a wide range of materials including composites and thin films. Like the previous issues (Vol. 48 No. 8 and Vol. 51 No. 4), this special issue collects recent research reports on crystallographic orientation distribution in different scales analyzed by X-ray diffraction, electron back scatter diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, etc., not only with academic interest in the mechanism of texture formation but also for technical applications of texture-related properties to several industrial fields. Texture research papers based on computing as well as on experiments are suitable for the aim of this issue.
Topics:
metals, ceramics, composites, thin films, X-ray diffraction, electron back scatter diffraction (EBSD), preferred orientation, texture formation, deformation, recrystallization, transformation
Manuscripts due: May 1, 2012
| Special Issue: | “Lead-Free and Advanced Interconnection Materials for Electronics V” |
The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Lead-Free and Advanced Interconnection Materials for Electronics V” as December 2012. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
10 years have passed since lead-free transition in electronics interconnection. Lead-free interconnection has become one of the indispensable technologies not only in consumer electronics industries but also in wider areas including automotive, power electronics, aeronautic, LED lighting and renewable energies, in which higher reliability becomes essential. In addition, ultra heat-resistant interconnection materials beyond 200 °C are required for the establishment of wide band gap semiconductors such as SiC and GaN. Those interconnection materials will involve high temperature lead-free solders, conductive adhesives, nano/micron particle sintering bonding, and nano solders.
In the current 5th special issue, the papers focused on new interconnection materials are widely invited. New scientific findings and technology development will be demonstrated. Thus, this special issue will provide great insight to the readers working in the field of the advanced interconnection engineering.
Topics:
tin whisker, electromigration, high temperature solder alternatives, conductive adhesives, die-attach, TSV, wafer bonding, plating, microstructure and phase stability,interface reactions, reliability, mechanical properties of solders and joints, wetting phenomena, corrosion, oxidation and ion-migration, soldering processes and fine pitch assembly, materials in soldering process, environmental impacts and recycling
Manuscripts due: June 1, 2012
| Special Issue: | “Recent Advances in Research and Development of Titanium and Its Alloys” |
The editorial committee of Materials Transactions is planning to publish a special issue on “Recent Advances in Research and Development of Titanium and Its Alloys” as January 2013. The committee would like to invite many contributions of original articles from around the globe for this special issue.
Objective and topics of coverage are as follows:
The World Conference on Titanium, the largest international conference on titanium and its alloys, was held in Kyoto, Japan in 2007 (Ti-2007).
This year (2011), the conference next to Ti-2007 (Ti-2011) was held in Beijing, China in June (Ti-2011), after a lapse of four years, because the conference is generally held every four years. New progress on the research and development of titanium and its alloys is understood by the overview of contents in Ti-2011.
Therefore, it is timely to edit a special issue on the research and development of titanium and its alloys in “Materials Transactions” and it is significant to summarize and generalize it by the publication. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on the research and development on titanium and its alloys including titanium-based intermetallic compounds.
Manuscripts due: July 2, 2012