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Medium- and high-entropy alloy (MEA and HEA) superconductors have attracted considerable interest since their discovery. This paper reports the superconducting properties of ternary tungsten-containing MEA V4Ti2W for the first time. V4Ti2W…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-03-11 Kuan Li , Weijie Lin , Ruixin Guo , Shu Guo , Lingyong Zeng , Longfu Li , Peifeng Yu , Kangwang Wang , Chao Zhang , Huixia Luo

The present work reported a novel L12-strengthening NiCoCrAlTi high entropy alloy (HEA) with an outstanding synergy of tensile strength and ductility at both ambient and high temperatures. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)…

High-entropy ceramics (HECs) are solid solutions of inorganic compounds with one or more Wyckoff sites shared by equal or near-equal atomic ratios of multi-principal elements. Material design and property tailoring possibilities emerge from…

High-entropy-alloy (HEA) superconductors are a new class of disordered superconductors. In this study, we investigate the robustness of superconducting states in HEA-type metal telluride (MTe; M = Ag, In, Sn, Pb, Bi) under high pressure.…

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) comprise a compositionally complex class of materials that in certain cases exhibit outstanding mechanical properties. While substantial progress has been made in understanding their phase stability,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-15 Mingwei Zhang , Uwe Glatzel , Martin Heilmaier , Easo P. George

Superconductivity has been one of the focal points in medium and high-entropy alloys (MEAs-HEAs) since the first discovery of the HEA superconductor in 2014. Until now, most HEAs' superconducting transition temperature (Tc) has not exceeded…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-23 Lingyong Zeng , Jie Wang , Hongyu Liu , Longfu Li , Jinjun Qin , Yucheng Li , Rui Chen , Jing Song , Yusheng Hou , Huixia Luo

We have synthesized high-entropy-alloy-type (HEA-type) RE123 superconductors Y0.28Nd0.16Sm0.18Eu0.18Gd0.20Ba2Cu3O7-d and Y0.18La0.24Nd0.14Sm0.14Eu0.15Gd0.15Ba2Cu3O7-d with a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) exceeding 90 K. From…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-18 Yuta Shukunami , Aichi Yamashita , Yosuke Goto , Yoshikazu Mizuguchi

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are materials that consist of equimolar or near-equimolar multiple principal components but tend to form single phases, which is a new research topic in the field of metallurgy, have attracted extensive attention…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-19 Yuanyuan Shang , Jamieson Brechtl , Claudio Psitidda , Peter K. Liaw

Cubic A15-type superconducting alloys continue to fascinate the academic and industrial fields because they mainly support the largest market for low-temperature superconducting applications and show exotic physical properties.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-02 Yucheng Li , Kuan Li , Lingyong Zeng , Rui Chen , Jingjun Qin , Shuangyue Wang , Huixia Luo

With the aim of the discovery of face-centered-cubic (fcc) high-entropy alloy (HEA) superconductor, we have carried out materials research on Nb or Pb-containing multi-component alloys. Although the X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of some…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-03 Naoki Ishizu , Jiro Kitagawa

High entropy alloys (HEAs) are multicomponent compounds whose high configurational entropy allows them to solidify into a single phase, with a simple crystal lattice structure. Some HEA's exhibit desirable properties, such as high specific…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-29 Rui Feng , Peter K. Liaw , Michael C. Gao , Michael Widom

Recently, robustness of superconductivity (transition temperature, Tc) under high pressures has been observed in high-entropy alloy (HEA), bcc-type Ti-Zr-Hf-Nb-Ta, and HEA-type compounds (Ag,In,Sn,Pb,Bi)Te with a NaCl-type structure. Since…

High-entropy alloys are characterized by high configurational entropy. Since the discovery of high-entropy alloys (HEA) in 2004, entropy engineering has provided a promising direction for exploiting composition, lattice disorder, band…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-12 S. Joseph Poon , Jian He

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are potential candidates for applications as refractory materials. While dual-phase refractory HEAs containing an ordered phase exhibit high hardness, there is high interest in developing intermetallic-free and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-30 Shivam Dangwal , Kaveh Edalati

High entropy alloys (HEA) show promise as a new type of high-performance structural material. Their vast degrees of freedom provide for extensive opportunities to design alloys with tailored properties. However, the compositional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-04-19 Qi Jie , Andrew Cheung , S. Joseph Poon

High entropy alloys (HEAs) are a new class of metals that exhibit unique mechanical performance. Among HEAs, additively manufactured eutectic high entropy alloys (AM-EHEAs) have recently emerged as candidate materials for use in extreme…

Since the discovery of high-entropy superconductors in 2014, superconductivity has remained a focal point of interest in medium- and high-entropy alloys (MEAs-HEAs). Here, we report a series of (Ti0.33Hf0.33Ta0.33)1-xNbx MEA superconductors…

Searching for new superconductors, especially unconventional superconductors, has been studied extensively for decades but remains one of the major outstanding challenges in condensed matter physics. Medium/high-entropy alloys (MEAs-HEAs)…

Here we report a TiHfNbTa bulk medium-entropy alloy (MEA) superconductor crystallized in the body-centered cubic structure, which is synthesized by an arc melting method. Superconducting properties of the TiHfNbTa are studied by employing…

The Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method with the coherent potental approximation (KKR-CPA) is applied to study the first superconducting high entropy alloy (HEA) Ta34Nb33Hf8Zr14Ti11 (discovered in 2014 with Tc = 7.3 K), focusing on estimations of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-05-25 K. Jasiewicz , B. Wiendlocha , P. Korbeń , S. Kaprzyk , J. Tobola