Irradiation effects in high-entropy alloys and their applications

Z Cheng, J Sun, X Gao, Y Wang, J Cui, T Wang… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2023 - Elsevier
On the one hand, Irradiation is everywhere and irradiation effect, especially the material
irradiation damage effect under strong irradiation field, is one of the key factors for the …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical short-range orders in high-/medium-entropy alloys

X Wu - Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
High (or medium)-entropy alloys (H/MEAs) are complex concentrated solid solutions prone
to develop the chemical short-range orders (CSROs), as an indispensable structural …

Effect of local chemical order on the irradiation-induced defect evolution in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy

Z Zhang, Z Su, B Zhang, Q Yu, J Ding… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
High-(and medium-) entropy alloys have emerged as potentially suitable structural materials
for nuclear applications, particularly as they appear to show promising irradiation resistance …

Enhancing the radiation tolerance of high-entropy alloys via solute-promoted chemical heterogeneities

Z Su, J Ding, M Song, L Jiang, T Shi, Z Li, S Wang… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) composed of multiple principal elements have the potential to
offer extraordinary radiation resistance. Using NiCoFeCrMn HEA as a model, here we …

Superior radiation tolerance via reversible disordering–ordering transition of coherent superlattices

J Du, S Jiang, P Cao, C Xu, Y Wu, H Chen, E Fu… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Materials capable of sustaining high radiation doses at a high temperature are required for
next-generation fission and future fusion energy. To date, however, even the most promising …

The effect of interstitial carbon atoms on defect evolution in high entropy alloys under helium irradiation

Z Su, T Shi, J Yang, H Shen, Z Li, S Wang, G Ran, C Lu - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a design strategy based on a typical multi-principal element alloy (Fe 50 Mn 30
Co 10 Cr 10, at.%) was proposed to tune the irradiation behavior by adding interstitial …

Simulating short-range order in compositionally complex materials

A Ferrari, F Körmann, M Asta… - Nature Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
In multicomponent materials, short-range order (SRO) is the development of correlated
arrangements of atoms at the nanometer scale. Its impact in compositionally complex …

[HTML][HTML] From high-entropy alloys to high-entropy ceramics: The radiation-resistant highly concentrated refractory carbide (CrNbTaTiW) C

MA Tunes, S Fritze, B Osinger, P Willenshofer… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
High-entropy materials represent the state-of-the-art on the alloy design strategy for future
applications in extreme environments. Recent data indicates that high-entropy alloys (HEAs) …

Effects of Fe atoms on hardening of a nickel matrix: Nanoindentation experiments and atom-scale numerical modeling

L Kurpaska, FJ Dominguez-Gutierrez, Y Zhang… - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
Significant hardening effect due to Fe concentrations in Ni-based alloys with face-centered-
cubic structure has been studied by using a combined experimental and atomistic-based …

Phase transformation and amorphization resistance in high-entropy MAX phase M2SnC (M= Ti, V, Nb, Zr, Hf) under in-situ ion irradiation

S Zhao, L Chen, H Xiao, J Huang, Y Li, Y Qian… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Chemical complexity significantly affects structures and properties in materials, such as high-
entropy alloys and oxides. In this study, we firstly studied the radiation effects in high-entropy …