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An idealized high entropy oxide is characterized by perfect chemical disorder and perfect positional order. In this work, we investigate the extent to which short-range order (SRO) and local structural distortions impede that idealized…
We investigate the short-range order (SRO) and phase stability of the equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy using cluster expansion supplemented by an eigen-decomposition analysis of the SRO parameters. Our results reveal that the…
Recent developments in the percolation theory of passivation have shown that chemical short-range order (SRO) affects the aqueous passivation behavior of alloys. However, there has been no systematic exploration to quantify these SRO…
The equilibrium short-range order (SRO) in Cu-Pd alloys is studied theoretically. The evolution of the Fermi surface-related splitting of the (110) diffuse intensity peak with changing temperature is examined. The results are compared with…
We provide strong numerical evidence for a hidden multihyperuniform long-range order (MHLRO) in SiGeSn medium-entropy alloys (MEAs), in which the normalized infinite-wavelength composition fluctuations for all three atomic species are…
Whilst multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) remain a promising class of materials owing to several attractive mechanical properties, their corrosion performance is also unique. In this concise review, we present an emerging overview of…
Nonanalytic chemical short-range order (SRO) has long been observed in diffuse scattering experiments for metallic alloys. However, considerable debate surrounds the validity of these observations due to the unresolved nature of the…
Electronic-structure methods based on density-functional theory (DFT) were used to directly quantify the effect of chemical short-range order (SRO) on thermodynamic, structural, and electronic properties of archetypal face-centered-cubic…
Short-range order (SRO) in Fe-rich Fe-Cr alloys is investigated by means of atomistic off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations in the semi-grand canonical ensemble using classical interatomic potentials. The SRO parameter defined by Cowley…
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) in austenitic stainless steels is advanced by hydrogen enhanced localized plasticity (HELP), typically accompanied by a transition from homogeneous to localized slip. Short-range order (SRO) in face-centered…
Multi principal element alloys (MPEAs) comprise a unique class of metal alloys. MPEAs have been demonstrated to possess several exceptional properties, including, as most relevant to the present study, a high corrosion resistance. In the…
Equiatomic NiCoCr solid solutions have been recently shown to display exceptional mechanical properties, that have been suggested to be linked to nanostructural short-range order (SRO) features that may arise from thermal treatments, such…
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) were presumed to have a configurational entropy as high as that of an ideally mixed solid solution (SS) of multiple elements in near-equal proportions. However, enthalpic interactions inevitably render such…
Thermomechanical processing alters the microstructure of metallic alloys through coupled plastic deformation and thermal exposure, with dislocation motion driving plasticity and microstructural evolution. Our previous work (Islam et al.,…
Chemical short-range order (SRO) refers to preference or avoidance between neighboring atomic species, which significantly impacts the properties of advanced alloys. However, quantifying and further controlling SRO remains a major…
Using an all-electron, first principles, Landau-type theory, we study the nature of short-range order and compositional phase stability in equiatomic refractory high entropy alloys, NbMoTa, NbMoTaW, and VNbMoTaW. We also investigate…
The development of machine learning sheds new light on the traditionally complicated problem of thermodynamics in multicomponent alloys. Successful application of such a method, however, strongly depends on the quality of the data and…
Short-range ordering (SRO) in Fe-Cr has been the subject of a number of recent experimental and theoretical investigations, as ordering effects are significant for the phase stability of this technologically important alloy. Recently,…
We develop a percolation model for face centered cubic binary alloys with chemical short-range order (SRO) to account for chemical ordering/clustering that occurs in nominally random solid solutions. We employ a lattice generation scheme…
We investigate the formation of long-period stacking ordered (LPSO) structure for Mg-Y-Zn ternary alloys based on the short-range order (SRO) tendency of energetically competitive disordered phases. We find that unisotropic SRO tendencies…