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A step forward from high-entropy ceramics to compositionally complex ceramics: a new perspective

Journal Article · · Journal of Materials Science
 [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States); UCSD
  2. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
High-entropy ceramics (HECs) have quickly gained attention since 2015. To date, nearly all work has focused on five-component, equimolar compositions. This perspective article briefly reviews different families of HECs and selected properties. Following a couple of our most recent studies, we propose a step forward to expand HECs to compositionally-complex ceramics (CCCs) to include medium-entropy and/or non-equimolar compositions. Here, using defective fluorite and ordered pyrochlore oxides as two primary examples, we further consider the complexities of aliovalent cations and anion vacancies as well as ordered structures with two cation sublattices. Better thermally-insulating yet stiff CCCs have been found in non-equimolar compositions with optimal amounts of oxygen vacancies and in ordered pyrochlores with large size disorder; it is demonstrated that medium-entropy ceramics (MECs) can prevail over their high-entropy counterparts. The diversifying classes of CCCs provide even more possibilities than HECs to tailor the composition, defects, disorder/order, and consequently various properties.
Research Organization:
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
Grant/Contract Number:
EE0008529; EE0008839
OSTI ID:
1835140
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1799526
Journal Information:
Journal of Materials Science, Journal Name: Journal of Materials Science Journal Issue: 23 Vol. 55; ISSN 0022-2461
Publisher:
SpringerCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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