Unconventional dislocation starvation behavior of medium-entropy alloy single crystal pillars containing pre-existing dislocations

L Wang, B Liu, J Zhou, Y Cao, F Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
The excellent dislocation storage ability of bulk multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) has
been widely reported. To date, however, the underlying mechanisms of dislocation escape …

The dislocation structure of slip bands in deformed high entropy alloy nanopillars

Q Yang, Y Hu, JM Zuo - Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Remarkable diversity is observed in dislocation interactions that are responsible for
intermittent and sudden crystal slips. While large crystal slips can be easily observed on the …

[HTML][HTML] Room-temperature super-elongation in high-entropy alloy nanopillars

Q Zhang, R Niu, Y Liu, J Jiang, F Xu, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nanoscale small-volume metallic materials typically exhibit high strengths but often suffer
from a lack of tensile ductility due to undesirable premature failure. Here, we report unusual …

Distinct nucleation and propagation of prismatic dislocation loop arrays in Ni and medium-entropy CrCoNi alloy: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations

P Zhou, F Shuang, RH Shi - Materials Today Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper utilizes molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the mechanisms of
nucleation and propagation of prismatic dislocation loop (PDL) arrays in single-crystal …

[HTML][HTML] Dislocation avalanche mechanism in slowly compressed high entropy alloy nanopillars

Y Hu, L Shu, Q Yang, W Guo, PK Liaw… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Crystals deform by the intermittent multiplication and slip avalanches of dislocations. While
dislocation multiplication is well-understood, how the avalanches form, however, is not clear …

Molecular Dynamics Simulations on the Mechanical Behavior of AlCoCrCu0.5FeNi High-Entropy Alloy Nanopillars

W Li, J Tang, Q Wang, H Fan - TMS 2019 148th Annual Meeting & …, 2019 - Springer
Molecular dynamics simulations were employed to investigate the plastic deformation of
AlCoCrCu 0.5 FeNi high-entropy alloy (HEA) nanopillars with a body-centered cubic …

Deformation mechanisms and remarkable strain hardening in single-crystalline high-entropy-alloy micropillars/nanopillars

Q Zhang, R Huang, X Zhang, T Cao, Y Xue, X Li - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
There have been very limited studies on plastic deformation mechanisms in single-
crystalline high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with body-centered cubic (BCC) phases. We …

[HTML][HTML] Size effect, critical resolved shear stress, stacking fault energy, and solid solution strengthening in the CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy

NL Okamoto, S Fujimoto, Y Kambara, M Kawamura… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) comprise a novel class of scientifically and technologically
interesting materials. Among these, equatomic CrMnFeCoNi with the face-centered cubic …

Origin of the high propensity for nanoscale deformation twins in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy

NJ Liu, ZJ Wang, J Ding, M Asta, RO Ritchie… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Single-phase face-centered cubic (fcc) high/medium-entropy alloys (H/MEAs) exhibit a much
higher tendency to form nanoscale deformation twins than conventional fcc metals with …

The metastable constituent effects on size-dependent deformation behavior of nanolaminated micropillars: Cu/FeCoCrNi vs Cu/CuZr

Y Zhao, J Zhang, YQ Wang, S Wu, X Liang… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metastable high entropy alloys (HEAs) and amorphous metallic glasses (MGs), with the
chemical disordered character, are intensively studied due to their excellent performance …