Polymorphism in a high-entropy alloy
- Univ. of Science and Technology, Beijing (China). State Key Lab. for Advanced Metals and Materials; Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai (China)
- Univ. of Science and Technology, Beijing (China). State Key Lab. for Advanced Metals and Materials
- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai (China)
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Center for Advanced Radiation Sources
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source
- Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Central South Univ., Hunan (China). State Key Lab. of Powder Metallurgy
- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai (China); Southeast Univ., Nanjing (China). School of Materials Science and Engineering
Polymorphism, which describes the occurrence of different lattice structures in a crystalline material, is a critical phenomenon in materials science and condensed matter physics. Recently, configuration disorder was compositionally engineered into single lattices, leading to the discovery of high-entropy alloys and high-entropy oxides. For these novel entropy-stabilized forms of crystalline matter with extremely high structural stability, is polymorphism still possible? Here by employing in situ high-pressure synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction, we reveal a polymorphic transition from face-centred-cubic (fcc) structure to hexagonal-close-packing (hcp) structure in the prototype CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy. The transition is irreversible, and our in situ high-temperature synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction experiments at different pressures of the retained hcp high-entropy alloy reveal that the fcc phase is a stable polymorph at high temperatures, while the hcp structure is more thermodynamically favourable at lower temperatures. Lastly, as pressure is increased, the critical temperature for the hcp-to-fcc transformation also rises.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Geosciences Division of Earth Sciences (GEO/EAR); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22), Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; FG02-94ER14466; EAR-1128799; AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1411660
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1372480
- Journal Information:
- Nature Communications, Vol. 8; ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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