Meet the editors

Prof. Tomasz Tański is the Head of the Department of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee of Metallurgy. He is a specialist in non-ferrous alloys, composite materials, and nanostructured, manufacturing engineering. He has authored or co-authored more than 400 scientific publications worldwide, including 15 monographs and

books and more than 116 publications on the Thomson Scientific Master Journal List. He has won twenty national and international awards. He is and has been a supervisor or contractor for more than fifteen research and didactic projects in Poland and abroad. He is a reviewer and promoter of numerous scientific papers, including eight doctoral theses in the field of nanotechnology and materials.

Paweł Jarka obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, where he is currently employed. The subject of his doctoral thesis was "The optoelectronic properties of active layers obtained by PVD methods in organic photovoltaic devices." His scientific interests concern functional materials. He has participated in many scientific international conferences.

He is the co-author of several dozen scientific papers and five chapters in monographs. He is also a co-editor of *Electrospinning Method Used to Create Functional Nanocomposites* and a co-author of one patent.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Preface XI**

Forming and Processing of Magnesium Alloys with Special Properties **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 25**

**Chapter 3 51**

Applications **83**

**Chapter 4 85**

**Chapter 5 107**

**Chapter 6 127**

Amorphous and Crystalline Magnesium Alloys for Biomedical Applications

*by Moara Marques de Castro, Débora Ribeiro Lopes and Leonardo Viana Dias*

Solidification Processing of Magnesium Based In-Situ Metal Matrix

*by Nagaraj Chelliah Machavallavan, Rishi Raj and M.K. Surappa*

Effect of ECAE Die Angle on Microstructure Mechanical Properties

*by Gajanan Manjunath Naik, Sachin Bandadka, Manjaiah Mallaiah,* 

*by Prince Sharma, Nushrat Naushin, Sahil Rohila and Abhishek Tiwari*

Magnesium Alloys and Magnesium-Based Composites for Biomedical

*by Katarzyna Cesarz-Andraczke, Aneta Kania, Katarzyna Młynarek* 

Mg-Based Composites for Biomedical Applications

Composites by Precursor Approach

Metal Forming of Magnesium Alloys for Various Applications

and Corrosion Behavior of AZ80/91 Magnesium Alloys

Magnesium Containing High Entropy Alloys

*by Romana Ewa Śliwa*

*and Rafał Babilas*

**Section 2**

*Ravindra Ishwar Badiger and Narendranath Sannayellappa*
