Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

High-content ductile coherent nanoprecipitates achieve ultrastrong high-entropy alloys

  • Yao-Jian Liang,
  • Linjing Wang,
  • Yuren Wen,
  • Baoyuan Cheng,
  • Qinli Wu,
  • Tangqing Cao,
  • Qian Xiao,
  • Yunfei Xue,
  • Gang Sha,
  • Yandong Wang,
  • Yang Ren,
  • Xiaoyan Li,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Fuchi Wang,
  • Hongnian Cai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06600-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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High entropy alloys usually emphasize equiatomic compositions, which restrict the compositions available to induce strengthening via precipitation. Here the authors use spinodal decomposition in a five-element alloy to obtain high content nanophases and the highest tensile strength reported to date.