Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), as the most commercialized metal additive manufacturing
technique, is tantalizing the metallurgical community owing to its capabilities of directly …

There is a growing concern within the surface science community that the massive increase
in the number of XPS articles over the last few decades is accompanied by a decrease in …

High entropy alloy and nitride coatings from the Cr-Hf-Mo-Ta-W system were deposited by
reactive magnetron sputtering from elemental segmented targets. The study aimed to …

The study aims to understand the irradiation behavior of multilayer coatings composed of
high-entropy materials. Here, we report the structural stability and elemental segregation of …

Refractory high/medium entropy nitrides (HENs/MENs) exhibit comprehensive application
prospects as protective films on mechanical parts, particularly those subjected to sliding …

Abstract Multicomponent Ti x NbCrAl nitride films were deposited on Si (100) substrates by
reactive direct current magnetron sputtering (dcMS) and high power impulse magnetron …

In this study, TiZrHfTa films were cosputtered through cyclical gradient composition
deposition by using four single-element targets connected to direct-current power supplies …

Multicomponent as well as high-entropy-based nitrides have received increasing interest in
the field of materials science and engineering. The structural characteristics of these …

Multi-element material coating systems have received much attention for improving the
mechanical performance in industry. However, they are still focused on ternary systems and …

Multicomponent or high-entropy ceramics show unique combinations of mechanical,
electrical, and chemical properties of importance in coating applications. However …