Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Doubled strength and ductility via maraging effect and dynamic precipitate transformation in ultrastrong medium-entropy alloy

  • Hyun Chung,
  • Won Seok Choi,
  • Hosun Jun,
  • Hyeon-Seok Do,
  • Byeong-Joo Lee,
  • Pyuck-Pa Choi,
  • Heung Nam Han,
  • Won-Seok Ko,
  • Seok Su Sohn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35863-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Commercial maraging alloys provide high strength and toughness by traditional precipitation strengthening mechanism. Here, the authors demonstrate a new strategy involving deformable precipitates and their dynamic phase transformation resulting in a twofold enhancement of strength and ductility.