Wear and friction are two unavoidable failures in mechanical systems with moving
components. Hence, the invention of new materials to curtail material losses and frictional …

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 …

Despite the extremely high hardness of recently proposed high-entropy carbides (HECs),
the low fracture toughness limits their applications in harsh mechanical environment. Here …

High entropy carbide ceramics (HECC) are solid solution of inorganic compounds with five
or more principal metal cations. Research interests in HECC are dramatically sparked by the …

A series of novel (Hf 0.25 Ta 0.25 Zr 0.25 Nb 0.25) C x N 1–x (x= 1, 0.9, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, and 0.5)
high entropy ceramics were successfully synthesised from transition metal monocarbides …

Surface wear-resistant coatings are an effective way to protect tools and provide certain
desired properties; however, these coatings often fail prematurely owing to their low plastic …

For the first time, air plasma ablation behavior of C f/(Ti 0.2 Zr 0.2 Hf 0.2 Nb 0.2 Ta 0.2) C–
SiC high-entropy ceramic matrix composites was studied systematically under a heat flux of …

High entropy carbides (HECs) are novel materials developed in recent years that have
attracted a lot of research interests. Unlike traditional carbides (containing one or two …

Multicomponent high entropy carbide ceramics (HECCs) have drawn increasing attention
because of their potential applications as ultra-high temperature and super-hard materials …

Abstract (HfMoTiWZr) C high entropy carbides (HEC) were prepared from the commercial
carbide powders of IVB (Hf, Ti, Zr) and VIB (Mo, W) group metals of the periodic table via …