Heterogenous columnar-grained high-entropy alloys produce exceptional resistance to intermediate-temperature intergranular embrittlement

BX Cao, HJ Kong, L Fan, JH Luan, ZB Jiao, JJ Kai… - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) strengthened by coherent nanoparticles show great potentials
for elevated-temperature structural applications, which however, generally suffer from a …

Designing nanoparticles-strengthened high-entropy alloys with simultaneously enhanced strength-ductility synergy at both room and elevated temperatures

JX Hou, SF Liu, BX Cao, JH Luan, YL Zhao, Z Chen… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing microstructurally stable alloys with the outstanding strength-ductility combination
at both room temperature and elevated temperatures is highly desirable for advanced …

Strain partitioning enables excellent tensile ductility in precipitated heterogeneous high-entropy alloys with gigapascal yield strength

F He, Z Yang, S Liu, D Chen, W Lin, T Yang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
High entropy alloys (HEAs) with grain-scale heterogeneous structure and coherent
precipitates have shown gigapascal strength and considerable ductility. However, the …

Pursuing ultrastrong and ductile medium entropy alloys via architecting nanoprecipitates-enhanced hierarchical heterostructure

SK Guo, ZL Ma, GH Xia, XY Li, ZQ Xu, WZ Li, XY Jin… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanoprecipitate-strengthened medium/high entropy alloys (M/HEAs) with ultrahigh strengths
and unusual physical properties represent promising candidates for structural applications …

Engineering heterostructured grains to enhance strength in a single-phase high-entropy alloy with maintained ductility

Z Fu, BE MacDonald, Z Li, Z Jiang, W Chen… - Materials Research …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Coarse-grained (CG) single-phase face-centered cubic (fcc) high-entropy alloys
(HEAs) normally show insufficient room temperature strength. Here we design and …

Compositionally complex coherent precipitation-strengthened high-entropy alloys: a critical review

JX Hou, BX Cao, B Xiao, ZB Jiao, T Yang - Rare Metals, 2022 - Springer
The coherent precipitation-strengthened high-entropy alloys (CPS-HEAs) as a new type of
structural materials are expected to possess many unique mechanical properties, such as …

Intermediate temperature embrittlement in a precipitation-hardened high-entropy alloy: The role of heterogeneous strain distribution and environmentally assisted …

BX Cao, DX Wei, XF Zhang, HJ Kong, YL Zhao… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Severe intergranular embrittlement has been found in a wide range of polycrystalline
metallic materials in the intermediate temperature regime, setting severe limits on their …

A high-entropy alloy with hierarchical nanoprecipitates and ultrahigh strength

Z Fu, L Jiang, JL Wardini, BE MacDonald, H Wen… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are a class of metallic materials that have revolutionized alloy
design. They are known for their high compressive strengths, often greater than 1 GPa; …

Achieving high strength and high ductility in a high-entropy alloy by a combination of a heterogeneous grain structure and oxide-dispersion strengthening

Z Cheng, L Yang, W Mao, Z Huang, D Liang… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Strengthening single-phase face-centered cubic high-entropy alloys (HEAs) by grain
refinement is usually accompanied by a dramatic loss of ductility, which is referred to as the …

Ductilizing brittle high-entropy alloys via tailoring valence electron concentrations of precipitates by controlled elemental partitioning

T Yang, YL Zhao, WH Liu, JH Zhu, JJ Kai… - Materials Research …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
High-strength high-entropy alloys (HEAs) reinforced by hard intermetallics generally show a
propensity for embrittlement, significantly undercutting their applications. Here we report a …