High-entropy alloys with heterogeneous microstructure: processing and mechanical properties

P Sathiyamoorthi, HS Kim - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Engineering metallic materials are an essential class of materials for a variety of industrial
applications due to their competitive mechanical properties, especially strength and ductility …

High‐Entropy Catalyst—A Novel Platform for Electrochemical Water Splitting

Y Zhai, X Ren, B Wang, S Liu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High‐entropy materials (HEMs) have been in the spotlight as emerging catalysts for
electrochemical water splitting. In particular, HEM catalysts feature multi‐element active sites …

Strong yet ductile nanolamellar high-entropy alloys by additive manufacturing

J Ren, Y Zhang, D Zhao, Y Chen, S Guan, Y Liu, L Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Additive manufacturing produces net-shaped components layer by layer for engineering
applications,,,,,–. The additive manufacture of metal alloys by laser powder bed fusion (L …

Uniting tensile ductility with ultrahigh strength via composition undulation

H Li, H Zong, S Li, S Jin, Y Chen, MJ Cabral, B Chen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Metals with nanocrystalline grains have ultrahigh strengths approaching two gigapascals.
However, such extreme grain-boundary strengthening results in the loss of almost all tensile …

Short‐range diffusion enables general synthesis of medium‐entropy alloy aerogels

G Han, M Li, H Liu, W Zhang, L He, F Tian… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Medium‐entropy alloy aerogels (MEAAs) with the advantages of both multimetallic alloys
and aerogels are promising new materials in catalytic applications. However, limited by the …

Designing structures with combined gradients of grain size and precipitation in high entropy alloys for simultaneous improvement of strength and ductility

S Qin, M Yang, P Jiang, J Wang, X Wu, H Zhou, F Yuan - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Suppressing the early strain localization at the nanostructured topmost layer is crucial for
achieving better tensile ductility in the gradient structure. Thus, structures with combined …

A highly distorted ultraelastic chemically complex Elinvar alloy

QF He, JG Wang, HA Chen, ZY Ding, ZQ Zhou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The development of high-performance ultraelastic metals with superb strength, a large
elastic strain limit and temperature-insensitive elastic modulus (Elinvar effect) are important …

Recent Progress and Future Advances on Aqueous Monovalent‐Ion Batteries towards Safe and High‐Power Energy Storage

F Zhang, W Zhang, D Wexler, Z Guo - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous monovalent‐ion batteries have been rapidly developed recently as promising
energy storage devices in large‐scale energy storage systems owing to their fast charging …

Anomalous precipitate-size-dependent ductility in multicomponent high-entropy alloys with dense nanoscale precipitates

YL Zhao, YR Li, GM Yeli, JH Luan, SF Liu, WT Lin… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Precipitates are known to be effective obstacles for dislocation gliding, which can
substantially increase the strength of metallic materials. In particular, dense nanoscale …

Strengthening CrFeCoNiMn0. 75Cu0. 25 high entropy alloy via laser shock peening

W Fu, Y Huang, J Sun, AHW Ngan - International Journal of Plasticity, 2022 - Elsevier
For most metallic materials, surface hardening via modifying the near-surface microstructure
is an effective method for improving mechanical properties. Among these processes, laser …