C and N doping in high-entropy alloys: A pathway to achieve desired strength-ductility synergy

MY He, YF Shen, N Jia, PK Liaw - Applied materials today, 2021 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted great attention because they provide diversified
possibilities for obtaining many exceptional properties. They are expected to serve as …

Development and property tuning of refractory high-entropy alloys: a review

XJ Hua, P Hu, HR Xing, JY Han, SW Ge, SL Li… - Acta Metallurgica Sinica …, 2022 - Springer
In the past decade, multi-principal element high-entropy alloys (referred to as high-entropy
alloys, HEAs) are an emerging alloy material, which has been developed rapidly and has …

[HTML][HTML] Yield strength and misfit volumes of NiCoCr and implications for short-range-order

B Yin, S Yoshida, N Tsuji, WA Curtin - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
The face-centered cubic medium-entropy alloy NiCoCr has received considerable attention
for its good mechanical properties, uncertain stacking fault energy, etc, some of which have …

Enhanced strength-ductility synergy via high dislocation density-induced strain hardening in nitrogen interstitial CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy

H Li, Y Han, H Feng, G Zhou, Z Jiang, M Cai… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present work demonstrates that nitrogen doping inhibits the formation of deformation
twins in a CrMnFeCoNi high entropy alloy, while significantly increases the strength without …

Nitrogen induced heterogeneous structures overcome strength-ductility trade-off in an additively manufactured high-entropy alloy

M Song, R Zhou, J Gu, Z Wang, S Ni, Y Liu - Applied Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
The strength-ductility trade-off has been the long-standing barrier in the pursuit of high-
performance structural materials. Here, by exploiting the merit of interstitial nitrogen, a novel …

Yield strength increase of a CoCrNi medium entropy alloy by interstitial nitrogen doping at maintained ductility

I Moravcik, H Hadraba, L Li, I Dlouhy, D Raabe, Z Li - Scripta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
We show that interstitial nitrogen doping improves the tensile properties of a CoCrNi alloy. A
material with 0.5 at% interstitial nitrogen was compared to a nitrogen-free CoCrNi alloy. The …

Excellent combination of strength and ductility of CoCrNi medium entropy alloy fabricated by laser aided additive manufacturing

F Weng, Y Chew, Z Zhu, X Yao, L Wang, FL Ng… - Additive …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, the CoCrNi medium entropy alloy (MEA) was successfully fabricated by laser
aided additive manufacturing (LAAM), a directed energy deposition (DED) process. Results …

Enhanced strength-ductility synergy of medium-entropy alloys via multiple level gradient structures

X Zhang, Y Gui, M Lai, X Lu, J Gu, F Wang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The microstructures, mechanical properties, and deformation substructures of gradient Mo
0.3 NiCoCr medium-entropy alloys (MEAs) with very coarse grain size created by pre-torsion …

Strengthening CoCrNi medium-entropy alloy by tuning lattice defects

H Huang, J Wang, H Yang, S Ji, H Yu, Z Liu - Scripta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
The CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy is not fully utilized at room temperature circumstance due
to its low strength, despite excellent cryogenic mechanical properties. Here we report that, a …

Dislocation-induced breakthrough of strength and ductility trade-off in a non-equiatomic high-entropy alloy

W Guo, J Su, W Lu, CH Liebscher, C Kirchlechner… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
In conventional metallic materials, strength and ductility are mutually exclusive, referred to
as strength-ductility trade-off. Here, we demonstrate an approach to improve the strength …