Design for Thermal Stability of Nanocrystalline Alloys Based on High-Entropy Effects
Received date: 2020-12-07
Revised date: 2021-01-15
Online published: 2021-02-07
Supported by
National Natural Science Foundation of China(51921001);the Project of State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing(2019Z-01)
Nanocrystalline alloys (NAs) with nano-sized fine grains and high density of grain boundaries exhibit promising properties, such as high strength and hardness. However, industrial applications of NAs at high or even room temperature have been limited, owing to their thermal instability, which originates from the high proportion of grain boundaries in NAs. Recently, nanocrystalline high-entropy alloys (NC-HEAs) have emerged and have been rapidly developed, which are expected to alleviate thermal instability. In this study, design strategies for the thermal stability of NC-HEAs and related progress are investigated and summarized. In addition, the underlying mechanism for the high thermal stability of NC-HEAs is discussed by utilizing high-entropy effects, based on entropy engineering. These high-entropy design strategies may provide a new methodology for dramatically increasing the thermal stability of NAs.
Yihan WANG , Yuan YUAN , Jiabin YU , Honghui WU , Yuan WU , Suihe JIANG , Xiongjun LIU , Hui WANG , Zhaoping LU . Design for Thermal Stability of Nanocrystalline Alloys Based on High-Entropy Effects[J]. Acta Metall Sin, 2021 , 57(4) : 403 -412 . DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2020.00494
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