Tailoring heterogeneities in high-entropy alloys to promote strength–ductility synergy

E Ma, X Wu - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Conventional alloys are usually based on a single host metal. Recent high-entropy alloys
(HEAs), in contrast, employ multiple principal elements. The strength of HEAs is …

Strengthening mechanisms in high entropy alloys: A review

N Ali, L Zhang, D Liu, H Zhou, K Sanaullah… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
High entropy alloys (HEAs) is a new generation of alloys with multi-component systems and
emerged as a potential candidate for the industrial applications due to their excellent …

Superior strength-ductility synergy and strain hardenability of Al/Ta co-doped NiCoCr twinned medium entropy alloy for cryogenic applications

DD Zhang, JY Zhang, J Kuang, G Liu, J Sun - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Metallic materials with outstanding cryogenic mechanical properties are highly demanded
for cryogenic engineering applications. Here we developed a novel (NiCoCr) 92 Al 6 Ta 2 …

Effects of lattice distortion and chemical short-range order on the mechanisms of deformation in medium entropy alloy CoCrNi

WR Jian, Z **e, S Xu, Y Su, X Yao, IJ Beyerlein - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
As the numbers of medium-to high-entropy alloys being studied and impressive structural
properties they exhibit increase rapidly, questions regarding the role played by their …

[HTML][HTML] Multistage work hardening assisted by multi-type twinning in ultrafine-grained heterostructural eutectic high-entropy alloys

P Shi, Y Zhong, Y Li, W Ren, T Zheng, Z Shen, B Yang… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
High strength of materials usually comes with low ductility due to the lost or short-lived strain
hardening. Here, we uncover a sequentially-activated multistage strain hardening (SMSH) …

Dynamic deformation behaviors and mechanisms of CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys

T Cao, Q Zhang, L Wang, L Wang, Y **ao, J Yao, H Liu… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their unique microstructures and chemical compositions, high-entropy alloys (HEAs)
exhibit remarkable mechanical properties, such as high strength, excellent ductility and …

Short-range ordering and its effects on mechanical properties of high-entropy alloys

Y Wu, F Zhang, X Yuan, H Huang, X Wen… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this letter, we briefly summarize experimental and theoretical findings of formation and
characterization of short-range orderings (SROs) as well as their effects on the deformation …

Atomistic insights into the deformation mechanism of a CoCrNi medium entropy alloy under nanoindentation

D Hua, Q **a, W Wang, Q Zhou, S Li, D Qian… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the fundamental of contact-induced behavior in metals is critical for the
studies of associated mechanical properties. Although nanocontact plasticity in the …

Ultrastrong and ductile BCC high-entropy alloys with low-density via dislocation regulation and nanoprecipitates

X Yan, PK Liaw, Y Zhang - Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The high strength is a typical advantage of body-centered-cubic high-entropy alloys
(BCCsingle bondHEAs). However, brittleness and weak strain-hardening ability are still their …

Wear-resistant CoCrNi multi-principal element alloy at cryogenic temperature

Y Ren, Q Zhou, D Hua, Z Huang, Y Li, Q Jia… - Science Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
Traditional high strength engineering alloys suffer from serious surface brittleness and
inferior wear performance when servicing under sliding contact at cryogenic temperature …