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Advances in Processing of Lightweight Metal Alloys and Composites

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Lightweight materials are widely employed in a variety of industries that require high performance with less weight, including biomedical, automobile, aviation, power generation, batteries, electronic devices, and the marine industries (Samuel Ratna Kumar PS, Jyothi S, John Alexis S in In micro and nano technologies, corrosion protection at the nanoscale. Elsevier, pp 47–61, 2020; Ali et al. in J Alloys Compd 619:639–651, 2015; Shahadat M, Teng TT, Rafatullah M, Arshad M in Coll Surf B: Biointerf 126:121–137, 2015). Several manufacturers are constantly looking for new materials that have the technological and economic capacity to compete successfully on the marketplace.

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    P. S. Samuel Ratna Kumar & P. M. Mashinini

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Samuel Ratna Kumar, P.S., Mashinini, P.M., Vaira Vignesh, R. (2023). Overview of Lightweight Metallic Materials. In: Vignesh, R.V., Padmanaban, R., Govindaraju, M. (eds) Advances in Processing of Lightweight Metal Alloys and Composites. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7146-4_4

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