High-entropy ceramics: Review of principles, production and applications

S Akrami, P Edalati, M Fuji, K Edalati - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
High-entropy ceramics with five or more cations have recently attracted significant attention
due to their superior properties for various structural and functional applications. Although …

Nitriding high entropy alloy films: Opportunities and challenges

X Wu, X Xu, Y Jiang, C Chen, H Han, L Zhao… - Surface and Coatings …, 2024 - Elsevier
High entropy nitride (HEN) films have attracted much attention due to their versatile
properties, such as satisfactory mechanical properties, excellent anti-oxidation performance …

Enhancing tribocorrosion resistance of VCoNi alloys in artificial seawater via nitrogen alloying

Z Jiao, Y Dong, Q Li, Q Zhou, S Han, C Yin, Z Huang… - Corrosion …, 2025 - Elsevier
The demand for tribocorrosion-resistant equipment has driven extensive research into
advanced materials. Utilizing electrochemical measurements and density-functional theory …

Fabrication of TiZrNbTaFeN high-entropy alloys coatings by HiPIMS: Effect of nitrogen flow rate on the microstructural development, mechanical and tribological …

SK Bachani, CJ Wang, BS Lou, LC Chang… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract One TiZrNbTaFe and five (TiZrNbTaFe) N high entropy alloy coatings were
deposited onto three different substrates using a high power impulse magnetron sputtering …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal stability and mechanical properties of sputtered (Hf, Ta, V, W, Zr)-diborides

A Kirnbauer, A Wagner, V Moraes, D Primetzhofer… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Non-reactive magnetron sputtering of a diboride target composed of HfB 2, TaB 2, VB 2, W 2
B 5, and ZrB 2 with equimolar composition leads to the formation of crystalline single-phase …

A perspective on challenges and opportunities in developing high entropy-ultra high temperature ceramics

A Nisar, C Zhang, B Boesl, A Agarwal - Ceramics International, 2020 - Elsevier
The emergence of a new class of high entropy ultra-high temperature ceramics (HE-UHTCs)
is expected to possess exceptionally superior mechanical, oxidation, and erosion resistance …

[HTML][HTML] Strain-stabilized Al-containing high-entropy sublattice nitrides

A Kretschmer, D Holec, K Yalamanchili, H Rudigier… - Acta materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The impact of configurational entropy, enthalpy, and strain energy on the phase stability of
high-entropy materials has not yet been investigated quantitatively. We used ab-initio …

[HTML][HTML] Improving phase stability, hardness, and oxidation resistance of reactively magnetron sputtered (Al, Cr, Nb, Ta, Ti) N thin films by Si-alloying

A Kretschmer, A Kirnbauer, V Moraes… - Surface and Coatings …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reactively magnetron sputtered high-entropy metal-sublattice (Al, Cr, Nb, Ta, Ti) N coatings
have been alloyed with Si concentrations between x Si= 6.4 and 15.0 at.%. All coatings are …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio supported development of TiN/MoN superlattice thin films with improved hardness and toughness

Z Gao, J Buchinger, N Koutná, T Wojcik, R Hahn… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Motivated by density functional theory (DFT)-derived ductility indicators for face centered
cubic (fcc, rocksalt) structured TiN/MoN 0.5 superlattices and Ti 0.5 Mo 0.5 N 0.75 solid …

Grain boundary wetting by a second solid phase in the high entropy alloys: A review

BB Straumal, A Korneva, GA Lopez, A Kuzmin… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this review, the phenomenon of grain boundary (GB) wetting by the second solid phase is
analyzed for the high entropy alloys (HEAs). Similar to the GB wetting by the liquid phase …