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High-entropy alloys, which exist in the high-dimensional composition space, provide enormous unique opportunities for realizing unprecedented structural and functional properties. A fundamental challenge, however, lies in how to predict the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-20 Jie Qi , Andrew M. Cheung , S. Joseph Poon

High-entropy alloys are solid solutions of multiple principal elements, capable of reaching composition and feature regimes inaccessible for dilute materials. Discovering those with valuable properties, however, relies on serendipity, as…

The solution and diffusion of interstitial non-metallic solutes (INSs) like H, He, O, C, N, P, and S is common in refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) and essentially controls the RHEAs properties. However, the disorder local chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-06 Qianxi Zhu , Wang Gao , Qing Jiang

We present total energy and force calculations on the (GaN)$_{1-x}$(ZnO)$_{x}$ alloy. Site-occupancy configurations are generated by Monte Carlo (MC) simulations, based on a cluster expansion (CE) model proposed in a previous study.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-11 Jian Liu , Luana S. Pedroza , Carissa Misch , Maria V. Fernández-Serra , Philip B. Allen

High-entropy alloys (HEAs), containing several metallic elements in near-equimolar proportions, have long been of interest for their unique mechanical properties. More recently, they have emerged as a promising platform for the development…

Tailoring the performance of next-generation high entropy materials requires a deep understanding of the competition between entropy-driven random solid solution and enthalpy-driven chemical ordering. Investigating such order and disorder…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-24 Fanli Zhou , Hao Chen , Pengxiang Xu , Kai Yang , Zongrui Pei , Xianglin Liu

The vacancy concentration at finite temperatures is studied for a series of (CoCrFeMn)$_{1-x_\mathrm{Ni}}$Ni$_{x_\mathrm{Ni}}$ alloys by grand-canonical Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations. The vacancy formation energies are calculated from a…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-28 Daniel Utt , Alexander Stukowski , Karsten Albe

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are a new class of materials constructed from multiple principal elements statistically arranged on simple crystallographic lattices. Due to the large amount of disorder present, they are excellent model systems…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-28 Fabian O. von Rohr , Robert J. Cava

Conventional visualization tools such as phase diagrams and convex hulls are ill-suited to visualize multiple principal element alloys (MPEAs) due to their large compositional space that cannot be easily projected onto two dimensions. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-17 John Cavin , Pravan Omprakash , Adrien Couet , Rohan Mishra

Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) are compositionally complex materials which have been demonstrated to have the potential for exceptional strength at high operating temperatures. However, their composition space is vast, and other…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Stephen A. Giles , Hugh Shortt , Peter K. Liaw , Debasis Sengupta

The exceptional combination of strength and ductility in multi-component alloys is often attributed to the interaction of dislocations with the various solute atoms in the alloy. To study these effects on the mechanical properties of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-16 Markus Sudmanns , Jaafar A. El-Awady

Single-phase multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) hold promise for improved mechanical properties as a result of multiple operative deformation modes. However, the use of many of these alloys in structural applications is limited as a…

The changes that vacancies produce in the properties of hcp solid 4He are studied by means of quantum Monte Carlo methods. Our results show that the introduction of vacancies produces significant changes in the behavior of solid 4He, even…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Rota , Y. Lutsyshyn , C. Cazorla , J. Boronat

This chapter presents an innovative framework for the application of machine learning and data analytics for the identification of alloys or composites exhibiting certain desired properties of interest. The main focus is on alloys and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-15 Baldur Steingrimsson , Xuesong Fan , Anand Kulkarni , Michael C. Gao , Peter K. Liaw

Structural High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) are crucial in advancing technology across various sectors, including aerospace, automotive, and defense industries. However, the scarcity of integrated chemistry, process, structure, and property data…

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-11 Qing-Jie Li , Howard Sheng , Evan Ma

High-entropy alloys (HEAs), and even medium-entropy alloys (MEAs), are an intriguing class of materials in that structure and property relations can be controlled via alloying and chemical disorder over wide ranges in the composition space.…

High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) are designed by mixing multiple metallic species in nearly the same amount to obtain crystalline or amorphous materials with exceptional mechanical properties. Here we use molecular dynamics simulations to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-17 Silvia Bonfanti , Roberto Guerra , Rene Alvarez-Donado , Pawel Sobkowicz , Stefano Zapperi , Mikko Alava

Using an ab initio approach, we explore the stability of small vacancy and vacancy-chromium clusters in dilute body-centred cubic Fe-Cr alloys. To explain experimental observations described in C.D. Hardie et al., J. Nucl. Mater. 439, 33…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Yu. Lavrentiev , D. Nguyen-Manh , S. L. Dudarev

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…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-13 A. K. Shargh , C. D. Stiles , J. A. El-Awady