Microstructures and properties of high-entropy alloys

Y Zhang, TT Zuo, Z Tang, MC Gao, KA Dahmen… - Progress in materials …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the recent research and development of high-entropy alloys (HEAs).
HEAs are loosely defined as solid solution alloys that contain more than five principal …

Computational thermodynamics and its applications

ZK Liu - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermodynamics is a science concerning the state of a system, whether it is stable,
metastable or unstable, when interacting with the surroundings. In this overview …

Diffusion coefficients of alloying elements in dilute Mg alloys: A comprehensive first-principles study

BC Zhou, SL Shang, Y Wang, ZK Liu - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
First-principles calculations based on density functional theory have been used to calculate
the temperature-dependent dilute tracer diffusion coefficients for 47 substitutional alloying …

A perspective on investigating transition metal high-entropy alloys for high-temperature applications

M Li, H Zhang, Y Zeng, J Liu - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Transition metal high-entropy alloys (TM HEAs) are currently considered as promising
structural materials for high-temperature (HT) applications. However, their HT oxidation is a …

High-throughput ab-initio dilute solute diffusion database

H Wu, T Mayeshiba, D Morgan - Scientific data, 2016 - nature.com
We demonstrate automated generation of diffusion databases from high-throughput density
functional theory (DFT) calculations. A total of more than 230 dilute solute diffusion systems …

First-principles calculations of transition metal–solute interactions with point defects in tungsten

XS Kong, X Wu, YW You, CS Liu, QF Fang, JL Chen… - Acta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
The interactions of solute atoms with point defects can modify the microstructure of materials
and affect microstructural evolution, ultimately leading to macroscopic changes in the …

Evolution of local lattice distortion under irradiation in medium-and high-entropy alloys

Y Tong, G Velisa, S Zhao, W Guo, T Yang, K Jin, C Lu… - Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
A major challenge for future nuclear reactors is to design nuclear materials that can sustain
extremely prolonged radiation damage. Local lattice distortion, considered as a core effect of …

A comparison study of change in hardness and microstructures of a Zr-added FeCrAl ODS steel irradiated with heavy ions

X Han, C Zhang, M Niu, Z Ding, J Jang, T Wang… - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
FeCrAl oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) steel is regarded as one of the most promising
candidate materials for nuclear fission reactors such as supercritical pressurized water …

Systematic electronic-structure investigation of substitutional impurity diffusion and flux coupling in bcc iron

L Messina, M Nastar, N Sandberg, P Olsson - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The diffusion properties of a wide range of impurities (transition metals and Al, Si, and P) in
ferritic alloys are here investigated by means of a combined ab initio–atomic diffusion theory …

Ab-initio based modeling of diffusion in dilute bcc Fe–Ni and Fe–Cr alloys and implications for radiation induced segregation

S Choudhury, L Barnard, JD Tucker, TR Allen… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2011 - Elsevier
A combination of ab-initio calculations and statistical mechanical models has been used to
study diffusion behavior in dilute ferritic Fe–Cr and Fe–Ni alloys. A full set of Onsager matrix …