| | Deformation Behavior and Toughening of High-Entropy Alloys | Zhaoping LU(), Zhifeng LEI, Hailong HUANG, Shaofei LIU, Fan ZHANG, Dabo DUAN, Peipei CAO, Yuan WU, Xiongjun LIU, Hui WANG | State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China | | Cite this article: Zhaoping LU, Zhifeng LEI, Hailong HUANG, Shaofei LIU, Fan ZHANG, Dabo DUAN, Peipei CAO, Yuan WU, Xiongjun LIU, Hui WANG. Deformation Behavior and Toughening of High-Entropy Alloys. Acta Metall Sin, 2018, 54(11): 1553-1566. | Abstract A new alloy design concept, high-entropy alloys (HEAs), has attracted increasing attentions and becomes a new research highlight recently. Different from traditional alloy design strategy which usually blends with one or two elements as the principal constituent and other minor elements for the further optimization of properties, HEAs are multicomponent alloys containing several principle elements (usually ≥5) in equiatomic or near equiatomic ratio. Due to their unique atomic structure, HEAs possess a lot of distinguished properties. Since the discovery of HEAs, a variety of HEA systems have been developed and shown unique physical, chemical and thermodynamic properties, especially the promising mechanical properties such as high strength and hardness, abrasion resistance, corrosion resistance and softening resistance. 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