A highly distorted ultraelastic chemically complex Elinvar alloy

QF He, JG Wang, HA Chen, ZY Ding, ZQ Zhou… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The development of high-performance ultraelastic metals with superb strength, a large
elastic strain limit and temperature-insensitive elastic modulus (Elinvar effect) are important …

Tuning element distribution, structure and properties by composition in high-entropy alloys

Q Ding, Y Zhang, X Chen, X Fu, D Chen, S Chen, L Gu… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
High-entropy alloys are a class of materials that contain five or more elements in near-
equiatomic proportions,. Their unconventional compositions and chemical structures hold …

Multifunctional alloys obtained via a dislocation-free plastic deformation mechanism

T Saito, T Furuta, JH Hwang, S Kuramoto, K Nishino… - Science, 2003 - science.org
We describe a group of alloys that exhibit “super” properties, such as ultralow elastic
modulus, ultrahigh strength, super elasticity, and super plasticity, at room temperature and …

Short-range order and its impact on the CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy

R Zhang, S Zhao, J Ding, Y Chong, T Jia, C Ophus… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Traditional metallic alloys are mixtures of elements in which the atoms of minority species
tend to be distributed randomly if they are below their solubility limit, or to form secondary …

Enhanced strength and ductility in a high-entropy alloy via ordered oxygen complexes

Z Lei, X Liu, Y Wu, H Wang, S Jiang, S Wang, X Hui… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Oxygen, one of the most abundant elements on Earth, often forms an undesired interstitial
impurity or ceramic phase (such as an oxide particle) in metallic materials. Even when it …

A fracture-resistant high-entropy alloy for cryogenic applications

B Gludovatz, A Hohenwarter, D Catoor, EH Chang… - Science, 2014 - science.org
High-entropy alloys are equiatomic, multi-element systems that can crystallize as a single
phase, despite containing multiple elements with different crystal structures. A rationale for …

[HTML][HTML] High entropy alloys as a bold step forward in alloy development

DB Miracle - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Diluting a base element with small amounts of another has served as the basis for
developing alloys for thousands of years since the advent of bronze. Today, a fundamentally …

Bifunctional nanoprecipitates strengthen and ductilize a medium-entropy alloy

Y Yang, T Chen, L Tan, JD Poplawsky, K An, Y Wang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Single-phase high-and medium-entropy alloys with face-centred cubic (fcc) structure can
exhibit high tensile ductility, and excellent toughness,, but their room-temperature strengths …

[HTML][HTML] Exceptional damage-tolerance of a medium-entropy alloy CrCoNi at cryogenic temperatures

B Gludovatz, A Hohenwarter, KVS Thurston… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
High-entropy alloys are an intriguing new class of metallic materials that derive their
properties from being multi-element systems that can crystallize as a single phase, despite …

Metastable high-entropy dual-phase alloys overcome the strength–ductility trade-off

Z Li, KG Pradeep, Y Deng, D Raabe, CC Tasan - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Metals have been mankind's most essential materials for thousands of years; however, their
use is affected by ecological and economical concerns. Alloys with higher strength and …