This book is the conference proceedings of the Chinese Materials Conference 2024 held by the Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS) in Guangzhou, China. It consists of about 20 papers in fields such as energy materials, environmental materials, advanced structural materials, functional materials as well as materials simulation, preparation, and evaluation. Readers will encounter new ideas and technologies in the field of advanced materials.

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Prof. Bingbo Wei is Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been engaged in the solidification technology of metal materials and space materials science research. His team has designed and developed experimental systems for supernormal solidification of metal materials featuring electromagnetic levitation, ultrasonic suspension, electrostatic suspension, pneumatic suspension, melt immersion flotation, and free fall and has published more than 400 academic papers. He won the second prize of the National Invention Awards and the second prize of National Prize for Natural Sciences.

Prof. Yuanyuan Li, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has long been engaged in the basic application and engineering research of powder metallurgy and non-ferrous alloy material preparation, forming theory and technology. He has won 2 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress and 4 first prize of provincial science and technology awards. He presided over and participated in a number of national projects, authorized 103 invention patents.

Prof. Jianxin Xie, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, is mainly engaged in the research of metal controlled solidification and controlled forming, advanced composite material preparation and processing, intelligent material preparation and processing technology as well as metal extrusion theory and technology.

He has won 1 second prize of the National Invention Awards, 2 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress, 2 international academic awards, and several other provincial prizes. Besides, he serves as Editor in Chief of Progress in Natural Science: Materials International, International Journal of Mineral, Metallurgy, and Materials and serves as Associate Editor of Journal of Plastic Engineering, Forging Technology.