Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Manipulating the ordered oxygen complexes to achieve high strength and ductility in medium-entropy alloys

  • Meiyuan Jiao,
  • Zhifeng Lei,
  • Yuan Wu,
  • Jinlong Du,
  • Xiao-Ye Zhou,
  • Wenyue Li,
  • Xiaoyuan Yuan,
  • Xiaochun Liu,
  • Xiangyu Zhu,
  • Shudao Wang,
  • Huihui Zhu,
  • Peipei Cao,
  • Xiongjun Liu,
  • Xiaobin Zhang,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Suihe Jiang,
  • Zhaoping Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36319-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Ordered oxygen complexes (OOCs) endow a unique interstitial strengthening mechanism for simultaneously enhancing strength and ductility in HEAs. Here, the authors demonstrate whether such mechanism can be extended to other alloy systems and how the formation of OOCs is tailored.