Muhammad Abubaker Khan Editor

Ghulam Yasin is a researcher in the School of Environment and Civil Engineering at Dongguan University of Technology, Guangdong, China. His expertise covers the design and development of hybrid devices and technologies of carbon nanostructures and advanced nanomaterials for for real-world impact in energy-related and other functional applications. Dr. Muhammad Abubaker Khan received his Master of Engineering in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering from the College of Engineering and Emerging Technology, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. He did his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He did his post-doctorate at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. Currently, he is working as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing. China. Dr Abubaker has over 60 publications in well-reputed peer-reviewed international journals. He is the author of several book and has been awarded various national and international honours and awards. He is currently a regular reviewer for over 10 journals. Dr Abubaker serves as guest editor for several journals. His research focuses on designing and developing lightweight high entropy alloys for aerospace applications. Dr Mohamed Afifi received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Benha university- Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra-Cairo Egypt. He did his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, and was then a research fellow at Brunel University in the UK until July 2022. Dr Afifi is currently an assistant professor in the Mechanical engineering program at the faculty of engineering and applied sciences, Nile University, Giza, Egypt. His research focuses on designing and developing high mechanical performance lightweight materials. Tuan Anh Nguyen is Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. His research focuses on advanced nanomaterials and nanotechnology for corrosion and materials integrity in transportation systems. His research activities include smart coatings, conducting polymers, corrosion and protection of metals/concrete, antibacterial materials, and advanced nanomaterials. Dr. Yong Zhang is a scientist in the field of High entropy alloys (HEAs) and has published more than 300 research articles. The first body-centred cubic HEA was synthesised with high strength and entropy. He is also a committee member of the amorphous Metals Society, China Materials Research and Nuclear Materials Society. Dr Zhang participated in organizing many conferences on HEAs. He is also a guest professor at the North Minzu University of China. He has been selected as one thousand talents and new century excellent talent of the Ministry of Education. He has edited albums of “Serration and Noise Behaviours in Advanced Materials” and “Nanostructured HEAs”. “The new advances in HEAs”, “bcc structured HEAs”, etc. Professor Zhang devoted himself to studying serration behaviour, high-throughput technology and collective effect in materials science.