Edited by Bowen Li Jian Li Shadia Ikhmayies Mingming Zhang Yunus Eren Kalay John S. Carpenter Jiann-Yang Hwang Sergio Neves Monteiro Donato Firrao Andrew Brown Chenguang Bai Zhiwei Peng Juan P. Escobedo-Diaz Ramasis Goswami Jeongguk Kim Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2018