Ultra-high temperature ceramics for extreme environments

BC Wyatt, SK Nemani, GE Hilmas, EJ Opila… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Modern demands in clean energy and space exploration require materials scientists to
develop materials that perform in the most extreme conditions in our universe. Recent …

High-entropy high-hardness metal carbides discovered by entropy descriptors

P Sarker, T Harrington, C Toher, C Oses… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
High-entropy materials have attracted considerable interest due to the combination of useful
properties and promising applications. Predicting their formation remains the major …

Carbides and nitrides of zirconium and hafnium

SV Ushakov, A Navrotsky, QJ Hong, A van de Walle - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Among transition metal carbides and nitrides, zirconium, and hafnium compounds are the
most stable and have the highest melting temperatures. Here we review published data on …

A high entropy silicide by reactive spark plasma sintering

Y Qin, JX Liu, F Li, X Wei, H Wu, GJ Zhang - Journal of Advanced …, 2019 - Springer
A high-entropy silicide (HES),(Ti 0.2 Zr 0.2 Nb 0.2 Mo 0.2 W 0.2) Si 2 with close-packed
hexagonal structure is successfully manufactured through reactive spark plasma sintering at …

Synergy of multiple precipitate/matrix interface structures for a heat resistant high-strength Al alloy

Q Lu, J Wang, H Li, S **, G Sha, J Lu, L Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High strength aluminum alloys are widely used but their strength is reduced as nano-
precipitates coarsen rapidly in medium and high temperatures, which greatly limits their …

Low‐temperature sintering of single‐phase, high‐entropy carbide ceramics

L Feng, WG Fahrenholtz… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Dense (Hf, Zr, Ti, Ta, Nb) C high‐entropy ceramics were produced by hot pressing
(HP) of carbide powders synthesized by carbothermal reduction (CTR). The relative density …

Melting temperature prediction using a graph neural network model: From ancient minerals to new materials

QJ Hong, SV Ushakov… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The melting point is a fundamental property that is time-consuming to measure or compute,
thus hindering high-throughput analyses of melting relations and phase diagrams over large …

Investigating the highest melting temperature materials: A laser melting study of the TaC-HfC system

O Cedillos-Barraza, D Manara, K Boboridis… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
TaC, HfC and their solid solutions are promising candidate materials for thermal protection
structures in hypersonic vehicles because of their very high melting temperatures (> 4000 K) …

Novel refractory high-entropy ceramics: Transition metal carbonitrides with superior ablation resistance

Z Peng, W Sun, X **ong, H Zhang, F Guo, J Li - Corrosion Science, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel high-entropy material as well as ultra-high temperature ceramic (Ta 0.2 Hf 0.2 Zr 0.2
Ti 0.2 Nb 0.2) C 0.8 N 0.2 was synthesized from ten kinds of transition metal carbides and …

Polymer-derived ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) and related materials

E Ionescu, S Bernard, R Lucas, P Kroll… - Ceramics, Glass and …, 2021 - Springer
Ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) represent an emerging class of materials capable
of providing mechanical stability and heat dissipation upon operation in extreme …