Advanced high-entropy alloys breaking the property limits of current materials

D Li, PK Liaw, L Xie, Y Zhang, W Wang - Journal of Materials Science & …, 2024 - Elsevier
The growing need for stronger and more ductile structural materials has spurred an intense
search for innovative, high-performance alloys. Traditionally, alloys face a pervasive trade …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical inhomogeneities in high-entropy alloys help mitigate the strength-ductility trade-off

E Ma, C Liu - Progress in Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Metallurgists have long been accustomed to a trade-off between yield strength and tensile
ductility. Extending previously known strain-hardening mechanisms, the emerging multi …

Negative mixing enthalpy solid solutions deliver high strength and ductility

Z An, A Li, S Mao, T Yang, L Zhu, R Wang, Z Wu… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Body-centred cubic refractory multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs), with several refractory
metal elements as constituents and featuring a yield strength greater than one gigapascal …

Discontinuous coarsening leads to unchanged tensile properties in high-entropy alloys with different recrystallization volume fractions

Z Yang, X Liu, J Zhao, Q Zeng, K Xu, Y Li… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous microstructure alloys provide a possibility for the combination of strength
and ductility. As a typical heterogeneous microstructure, partially recrystallized …

Rapid High-Temperature Liquid Shock Synthesis of High-Entropy Alloys for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

X Cui, Y Liu, X Wang, X Tian, Y Wang, G Zhang, T Liu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
High-entropy-alloy nanoparticles (HEA-NPs) show great potential as electrocatalysts for
water splitting, fuel cells, CO2 conversion, etc. However, fine-tuning the surface …

[HTML][HTML] A novel strategy for the design of compositionally complex alloys for advanced nuclear applications

M Moschetti, L Perrière, JP Couzinié, JJ Kruzic… - Applied Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
The development of compositionally complex alloys (CCAs), including medium-and high-
entropy alloys (M/HEAs), which can offer exceptional mechanical properties, thermal …

Substitutional and interstitial atoms co-doping overcomes the strength–ductility trade-off in lightweight refractory medium-entropy alloys

Y Liu, M Wang, T Wang, T Li, Y Lu - Materials Characterization, 2024 - Elsevier
Interstitial or substitutional solid solution strengthening is a common method for enhancing
material mechanical properties, however, it is unclear whether their synergy can lead to …

Development of reduced-activation and radiation-resistant high-entropy alloys for fusion reactor

H Yang, Z Shao, Q Lu, C Cui, L Xu, G Yang - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the development of advanced nuclear reactors such as fusion reactors and Generation
IV reactors, structural materials for nuclear applications will face increasingly extreme …

A novel W/FeCoCrNi-based in-situ formed high-entropy alloy gradient coating with Laves-FCC dual-phase structure and synergistic friction behavior

Y Guan, D Chen, X Cui, J Li, L Feng, X Li, S Wan… - Tribology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Based on the two-way diffusion behavior of FeCoCrNi and W elements and the lattice
distortion principle during alloy solidification, a new type of HEA wear-resistant coating with …

An ambient ductile VNbTa refractory medium-entropy alloy with super rolling formability

L Yang, K Xiong, H Dai, H Wu, S Zhang, Y Wang… - Materials Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Refractory multiple-principal element alloys (RMEAs) systems have drawn particular
attentions in recent years due to their great potential for high-temperature application …