The materials science behind sustainable metals and alloys

D Raabe - Chemical reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Production of metals stands for 40% of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions, 10% of the
global energy consumption, 3.2 billion tonnes of minerals mined, and several billion tonnes …

Machine learning for high-entropy alloys: Progress, challenges and opportunities

X Liu, J Zhang, Z Pei - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted extensive interest due to their exceptional
mechanical properties and the vast compositional space for new HEAs. However …

Direct observation of chemical short-range order in a medium-entropy alloy

X Chen, Q Wang, Z Cheng, M Zhu, H Zhou, P Jiang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Complex concentrated solutions of multiple principal elements are being widely investigated
as high-or medium-entropy alloys (HEAs or MEAs),,,,,,,,,–, often assuming that these …

Uniting tensile ductility with ultrahigh strength via composition undulation

H Li, H Zong, S Li, S Jin, Y Chen, MJ Cabral, B Chen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Metals with nanocrystalline grains have ultrahigh strengths approaching two gigapascals.
However, such extreme grain-boundary strengthening results in the loss of almost all tensile …

High-entropy alloys: emerging materials for advanced functional applications

X Wang, W Guo, Y Fu - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Accompanied by enhancements in the ability to fabricate materials for humans, alloy-based
materials have advanced from binary alloy systems to complicated compositions along with …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Achieving superb strength in single-phase FCC alloys via maximizing volume misfit

Z Li, S Ma, S Zhao, W Zhang, F Peng, Q Li, T Yang… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-phase face-centered cubic (SP-FCC) alloys normally possess low strength.
Conventionally strengthening strategies inevitably cause significant ductility sacrifice. Here …

Natural-mixing guided design of refractory high-entropy alloys with as-cast tensile ductility

S Wei, SJ Kim, J Kang, Y Zhang, Y Zhang, T Furuhara… - Nature Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Metallic alloys containing multiple principal alloying elements have created a growing
interest in exploring the property limits of metals and understanding the underlying physical …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical medium-range order in a medium-entropy alloy

J Wang, P Jiang, F Yuan, X Wu - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract High-/medium-entropy alloys (H/MEA) have the inherent local chemical order. Yet,
as a structural link between the incipient short-range order and mature long-range …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanically derived short-range order and its impact on the multi-principal-element alloys

JB Seol, WS Ko, SS Sohn, MY Na, HJ Chang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chemical short-range order in disordered solid solutions often emerges with specific heat
treatments. Unlike thermally activated ordering, mechanically derived short-range order …