Si-addition contributes to overcoming the strength-ductility trade-off in high-entropy alloys

D Wei, W Gong, T Tsuru, I Lobzenko, X Li… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Face-centered cubic single-phase high-entropy alloys (HEAs) containing multi-principal
transition metals have attracted significant attention, exhibiting an unprecedented …

Metalloid substitution elevates simultaneously the strength and ductility of face-centered-cubic high-entropy alloys

D Wei, L Wang, Y Zhang, W Gong, T Tsuru, I Lobzenko… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently-developed high-entropy alloys (HEAs) containing multiple principal metallic
elements have extended the compositional space of solid solutions and the range of their …

Dislocation-induced breakthrough of strength and ductility trade-off in a non-equiatomic high-entropy alloy

W Guo, J Su, W Lu, CH Liebscher, C Kirchlechner… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
In conventional metallic materials, strength and ductility are mutually exclusive, referred to
as strength-ductility trade-off. Here, we demonstrate an approach to improve the strength …

Development of strong and ductile metastable face-centered cubic single-phase high-entropy alloys

D Wei, X Li, S Schönecker, J Jiang, WM Choi, BJ Lee… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Face-centered cubic (fcc)-phase high-entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted much
academic interest, with the stacking fault energy (SFE) playing an important role in …

Utilization of brittle σ phase for strengthening and strain hardening in ductile VCrFeNi high-entropy alloy

YH Jo, WM Choi, DG Kim, A Zargaran, K Lee… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
General design concept used in high-entropy alloys (HEAs) have deviated from forming an
fcc single phase to utilizing hard intermetallic phases in ductile fcc matrix. Here, we …

Carbon and nitrogen co-doping enhances phase stability and mechanical properties of a metastable high-entropy alloy

W Zhang, D Yan, W Lu, Z Li - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2020 - Elsevier
To probe the significant interstitial effects coupling with the metastability design of high-
entropy alloys (HEAs), we introduced both interstitial C and N into a representative …

Transformation-reinforced high-entropy alloys with superior mechanical properties via tailoring stacking fault energy

SF Liu, Y Wu, HT Wang, WT Lin, YY Shang… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Face-centered cubic (fcc) HEAs, particularly the typical FeCoNiCrMn HEA, are promising for
cryogenic applications but generally exhibit relatively low strength at ambient temperature …

Unprecedented bake hardening responses of interstitial high-entropy alloy by synergistic effect with lattice distortion

GH Gu, H Kwon, Y Kim, F Haftlang, YU Heo, HS Kim - Materials & Design, 2023 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) composed of multiple principal elements have attracted
considerable interest in recent decades as a new class of metallic materials. Among them …

Inherent and multiple strain hardening imparting synergistic ultrahigh strength and ductility in a low stacking faulted heterogeneous high-entropy alloy

Z An, S Mao, Y Liu, L Yang, A Vayyala, X Wei, C Liu… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Alloys with high yield strength and ductility are attractive for application because of their
potential to offer mass reduction, energy savings, and enhanced structural reliability …

Mechanical behaviors of equiatomic and near-equiatomic face-centered-cubic phase high-entropy alloys probed using in situ neutron diffraction

D Wei, W Gong, T Tsuru, T Kawasaki, S Harjo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi Cantor alloy, a face-centered-cubic (FCC) single-
phase high-entropy alloy (HEA), has attracted considerable attention owing to its high …