Twinning in metastable high-entropy alloys

Shuo Huang; He Huang; Wei Li; Dongyoo Kim; Song Lu; Xiaoqing Li; Erik Holmström; Se Kyun Kwon; Levente Vitos

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04780-x

Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Twinning in metastable high-entropy alloys

Shuo Huang,
He Huang,
Wei Li,
Dongyoo Kim,
Song Lu,
Xiaoqing Li,
Erik Holmström,
Se Kyun Kwon,
Levente Vitos

Affiliations

Shuo Huang: Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology
He Huang: Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology
Wei Li: Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology
Dongyoo Kim: Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology
Song Lu: Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology
Xiaoqing Li: Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology
Erik Holmström: Sandvik Coromant R&D
Se Kyun Kwon: Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Levente Vitos: Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04780-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Twinning has been experimentally seen in high-entropy alloys, but understanding how it operates remains a challenge. Here, the authors show that twinning can be a primary deformation mechanism in three well-known medium- and high-entropy alloys that have unstable face-centered cubic lattices.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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