Spark plasma sintering (SPS), also known as pulsed electric current sintering (PECS) or
field-assisted sintering technique (FAST), belongs to a class of powder metallurgy …

Intermetallic titanium aluminides based on the ordered γ‐TiAl phase have gained increasing
interest as innovative high‐temperature light‐weight structural materials. They have found …

Increasing the service temperature of TiAl intermetallics is the main challenge for the
development of next-generation aircraft. Dispersion-strengthening, an effective means to …

Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing (CSAM) produces freeform parts by accelerating powder
particles at supersonic speed which, impacting against a substrate material, trigger a …

Additively manufactured alloys undergo a rapid solidification process followed by thermal
cycles, which promotes the microstructures to return to equilibrium. The microstructural …

The densification mechanism of conductive powders is revealed by comparing the electric
current-assisted spark plasma sintering (SPS) of ZrN powder with conventional hot pressing …

Developing energy-efficient and scalable microstructural solutions that enable both an
intrinsically high strength and high ductility has always been a pursuit in materials science …

Abstract In this work, Ti-Ag sintered alloys (Ti-Ag) with different Ag contents were prepared
by a spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique, which is a new, efficient and convenient …

Aluminum matrix composites (AMCs) reinforced with AlCoCrFeNi high entropy alloy (HEA)
particles were fabricated by spark plasma sintering (SPS). The interface formation between …

This Viewpoint paper is written in conjunction with the Journal's celebration of 1000 at 1000,
a milestone of reaching the publication of the 1000th issue and highlighting those papers …