Synthesis and Sintering is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing fundamental understanding and technological development in the synthesis, processing, transformation, consolidation, and modification of materials. The journal publishes theoretical, computational, numerical, and experimental research on material formation, processing mechanisms, structural evolution, and the development of material properties.

The journal emphasizes the relationships between processing conditions, chemical composition, phase constitution, microstructure, and material performance. Its scope encompasses a broad range of materials and processing technologies, welcoming contributions from materials science and engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and related disciplines, provided that they demonstrate a clear connection to materials or materials-processing phenomena.

The principal areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Synthesis of Advanced Materials: Physical, chemical, and physicochemical methods for synthesizing metals, alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, nanomaterials, and functional materials. Topics include solid-state reactions, powder metallurgy, sol–gel processing, precipitation, hydrothermal and solvothermal synthesis, combustion synthesis, mechanical alloying, and other synthesis routes.

2. Design and Development of Novel Materials: Design, fabrication, and optimization of advanced materials, including metal matrix, ceramic matrix, and polymer matrix composites; high-entropy and compositionally complex alloys; intermetallic compounds; MAX phases; MXenes; nanostructured materials; functional ceramics; and other emerging material systems.

3. Sintering and Materials Consolidation: Fundamental and applied studies of pressureless sintering, hot pressing, hot isostatic pressing, spark plasma sintering, microwave sintering, field-assisted sintering, liquid-phase sintering, reactive sintering, and related consolidation technologies. Research on densification, mass transport, grain growth, pore evolution, interfacial reactions, and process optimization is particularly encouraged.

4. Additive Manufacturing and Powder-Based Processing: Additive manufacturing and powder-based technologies, including selective laser sintering, selective laser melting, binder jetting, material extrusion, and related processes involving powder consolidation, thermal treatment, post-processing, and the fabrication of complex material architectures.

5. Thermal Processing and Phase Transformations: Heat treatment, annealing, calcination, pyrolysis, thermal decomposition, melting, solidification, crystallization, recrystallization, and other thermally activated processes. Studies addressing phase equilibria, transformation kinetics, reaction mechanisms, and microstructural evolution during heating and cooling are welcome.

6. Chemical Reactions and Materials Transformations: Formation, decomposition, conversion, dissolution, precipitation, extraction, and removal of phases, compounds, and chemical species during materials synthesis and processing. Relevant topics include oxidation, reduction, carburization, nitridation, decarburization, reaction–diffusion processes, selective leaching, and other chemical or thermochemical transformations affecting material composition, structure, and properties.

7. Microstructural Engineering, Defects, and Characterization: Formation, evolution, control, and elimination of pores, cracks, inclusions, precipitates, grain boundaries, interfacial phases, and other microstructural features. The journal also welcomes research on phase identification, crystallographic structure, composition, interfaces, texture, and structure–property relationships, particularly where characterization provides mechanistic insight into material formation, processing, transformation, or performance.

8. Surface Engineering, Coatings, and Materials Modification: Surface treatment, coating deposition, diffusion-based modification, plasma processing, laser treatment, thermal spraying, and related techniques for tailoring surface chemistry, microstructure, adhesion, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, and functional properties. Studies on surface reactions and the formation, modification, or removal of protective, functional, or unwanted surface layers are included.

9. Degradation, Corrosion, and Materials Stability: Mechanisms and mitigation of oxidation, corrosion, erosion, wear, thermal degradation, chemical attack, and environmental deterioration in metals, ceramics, composites, and other materials. Topics include protective layer formation, scale growth, phase instability, degradation kinetics, and the influence of synthesis and processing conditions on long-term stability.

10. Materials Recycling, Recovery, and Resource Valorization: Physical and chemical processes for recovering, separating, refining, and reusing materials from industrial residues, manufacturing waste, end-of-life products, and secondary resources. Topics include selective dissolution, leaching, extraction, purification, reduction, thermal conversion, waste-derived materials, and the synthesis of value-added materials from recovered resources.

11. Functional Materials and Property Engineering: Synthesis, processing, modification, and evaluation of materials for mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic, optical, catalytic, electrochemical, biomedical, and other functional applications. Contributions should establish meaningful relationships between material composition, processing conditions, structure, and resulting properties or performance.

12. Computational Modeling, Simulation, and Process Optimization: Theoretical analysis, numerical simulation, and computational modeling of material synthesis, transformation, and processing. Topics include reaction kinetics, diffusion, heat and mass transfer, fluid flow, densification, phase evolution, residual stresses, fracture, and coupled thermal, mechanical, chemical, electrical, and electromagnetic phenomena. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are welcome when applied to materials research, process prediction, design, or optimization.

13. Sustainable Processing and Emerging Technologies: Innovative approaches to improving processing efficiency, reducing energy consumption, minimizing waste, conserving resources, and developing more sustainable materials and manufacturing technologies. Topics include low-energy synthesis, process intensification, resource-efficient production, environmentally responsible materials processing, and emerging technologies for material formation, transformation, and consolidation.

The journal welcomes studies ranging from fundamental investigations of reaction mechanisms, transport phenomena, and phase transformations to application-oriented research addressing the development, processing, and performance of advanced materials. Interdisciplinary contributions are encouraged when they provide substantive advances in the understanding or engineering of materials.

Synthesis and Sintering aims to promote rigorous scientific inquiry, advance understanding of materials formation and transformation, foster innovation in materials processing, and support the development of materials with tailored structures and enhanced properties. The journal considers original research articles, comprehensive review articles, and other scholarly contributions that demonstrate scientific rigor, methodological soundness, and a clear contribution to its aims and scope.