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The tunability of the mechanical properties of refractory multi-principal-element alloys (RMPEAs) make them attractive for numerous high-temperature applications. It is well-established that the phase stability of RMPEAs control their…
Refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAs) represent a novel class of alloys characterized by an extensive compositional design space and the potential for exceptional mechanical performance under extreme conditions. While accurate…
Designing complex concentrated alloys (CCA), also known as high entropy alloys (HEA), requires reliable and accessible thermodynamic predictions due to vast space of possible compositions. Numerous semiempirical parameters have been…
Refractory compositionally complex alloys (RCCAs) are considered the next generation high-temperature materials. However, their high-dimensional composition spaces are too large to explore by traditional density functional theory or…
The ability to predict the composition- and temperature-dependent stability of refractory complex concentrated alloys (RCCAs) is vital to the design of high-temperature structural alloys. Here, we present a model based on first-principles…
New refractory alloys are being continuously designed and characterised for applications requiring good high-temperature mechanical properties and stability. Computational design from atomistic simulations is limited by interatomic…
In this study Mo-Nb-Ta-W refractory high-entropy alloys (R-HEAs) have been studied for their phase stability for a wide temperature range (100 K to 2000 K). The equilibrium thermodynamic phases are determined by the changes in enthalpy and…
Method(s) that can reliably predict phase evolution across thermodynamic parameter space, especially in complex systems are of critical significance in academia as well as in the manufacturing industry. In the present work, phase stability…
Predicting the melting temperature (Tm) of multi-component and high-entropy alloys (HEAs) is critical for high-temperature applications but computationally expensive using traditional CALPHAD or DFT methods. In this work, we develop a…
Phase equilibria in the Al-Ti-Nb-Zr-Ta refractory complex concentrated alloy system were investigated using a high throughput experimental approach. A pseudo-ternary section of the quinary compositional space was prepared by a honeycomb…
Researchers attributed the orderly arranged nanoscale phases observed in many multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) to spinodal/spinodal-mediated phase transformation pathways. However, spinodal decomposition is not well understood in…
Multi-principal-element alloys, including high-entropy alloys, experience segregation or partially-ordering as they are cooled to lower temperatures. For Ti$_{0.25}$CrFeNiAl$_{x}$, experiments suggest a partially-ordered B2 phase, whereas…
Recently, high-entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted wide attention due to their extraordinary materials properties. A main challenge in identifying new HEAs is the lack of efficient approaches for exploring their huge compositional space.…
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted increasing attention due to their unique structural and functional properties. In the study of HEAs, thermodynamic properties and phase stability play a crucial role, making phase diagram…
Calculation of phase diagrams is one of the fundamental tools in alloy design---more specifically under the framework of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering. Uncertainty quantification of phase diagrams is the first step required…
Finding Minimum Energy Configurations (MECs) is essential in fields such as physics, chemistry, and materials science, as they represent the most stable states of the systems. In particular, identifying such MECs in multi-component alloys…
Phase diagram of Np-U-Zr, a key ternary alloy system of relevance for metallic nuclear fuels, is still largely undetermined. Here a thermodynamic model for the Np-U-Zr system is developed based on Muggianu extrapolation of our models for…
This study presents a computationally efficient framework for accelerated alloy discovery that uses the non-interacting electron density to capture intrinsic structure-property relationships in refractory high-entropy alloys (HEAs). Unlike…
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…
We explored quinary body-centered cubic (bcc) high-entropy alloy (HEA) superconductors with valence electron concentrations (VECs) ranging from 4.6 to 5.0, a domain that has received limited attention in prior research. Our search has led…