Future development of metal materials

Metallic materials is a very promising specialty, is relatively new traditional materials. Nowadays, metal materials endowed with some new research thinking, mainly reflected in the following research directions:

High-performance metal materials: focusing on substantial improvement of the comprehensive performance of the metal materials with a large number of practical applications;

Materials Surface Engineering: to improve the surface of the material wear-resistance, corrosion-resistance and endowed with some kind of functional or aesthetic effect.　

Superhard materials: diamond materials and their iron-based catalysts mainly.　

Advanced fiber materials: the raw silk and products of carbon fiber materials are mainly used.　

Functional materials: energy conversion (e.g., electric-thermal, acoustic-electric, etc.) materials.　

Biomedical materials: the human body defective hard tissue and tissue repair and replacement materials.　

The above directions fully reflect the trend of interdisciplinary development of new materials, which is very conducive to the cultivation of comprehensive innovation ability.