Research in the field of high-entropy alloys has been surging since the 2010s. As widely
acknowledged, research interests in this field are largely sparked by the enormous …

Nanocrystalline metals are transitioning from laboratory curiosities to engineering materials,
in large part due to advances in improving their stability, making their exceptional properties …

Grain boundary (GB) migration plays an important role in modifying the microstructures and
the related properties of polycrystalline materials, and is governed by the atomistic …

Creep, the time-dependent deformation of materials stressed below the yield strength, is
responsible for a great number of component failures at high temperatures. Because grain …

The emergence of eutectic high-entropy alloys containing Laves phase provides a new and
exciting research direction towards developing advanced structural alloys, in light of the …

Non-conservative dislocation climb plays a unique role in the plastic deformation and creep
of crystalline materials. Nevertheless, the underlying atomic-scale mechanisms of …

Metals with nanometer-scale grains or nanocrystalline metals exhibit high strengths at
ambient conditions, yet their strengths substantially decrease with increasing temperature …

Strengthening of metals through nanoscale grain boundaries and coherent twin boundaries
is manifested by a maximum strength—a phenomenon known as Hall–Petch breakdown …

Refining grains to the nanoscale can greatly enhance the strength of metals. But the
engineering applications of nanostructured metals are limited by their complex …

Owing to their exceptional properties, high-entropy alloys (HEAs) and high-entropy materials
have emerged as promising research areas and shown diverse applications. Here, the …