Strong and ductile FeNiCoAl-based high-entropy alloys for cryogenic to elevated temperature multifunctional applications

Zhang, Cheng; Yu, Qin; Tang, Yuanbo T.; Xu, Mingjie; Wang, Haoren; Zhu, Chaoyi; Ell, Jon; Zhao, Shiteng; MacDonald, Benjamin E.; Cao, Penghui; Schoenung, Julie M.; Vecchio, Kenneth S.; Reed, Roger C.; Ritchie, Robert O.; Lavernia, Enrique J.

doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2022.118449

Strong and ductile FeNiCoAl-based high-entropy alloys for cryogenic to elevated temperature multifunctional applications

Journal Article · Wed Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Acta Materialia

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2022.118449· OSTI ID:2278640

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University of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

The highly tunable properties of multi-principal element alloys, commonly known as high-entropy alloys (HEAs), provide a remarkable potential for the development of superior materials for critical structural applications that involve extreme conditions. However, the optimization of the properties of HEAs has been primarily limited to behavior at either low or high temperatures. We report on a non-equiatomic, heterostructured, high-entropy alloy FeNiCoAlTaB which possesses remarkable combinations of mechanical properties across a wide range of temperatures from 77 K to 1073 K. The current metastable alloy presents good ductility and superior engineering tensile strengths of 2.2 GPa, 1.4 GPa, 800 MPa, and 500 MPa at 77 K, 298 K, 873 K, and 1073 K, respectively. This behavior is achieved by a synergic sequence of individual mechanisms that are activated at different temperatures. The alloy even displays pseudoelasticity at 77 K with an applied load up to 2 GPa. This work provides a methodology for tailoring structural heterogeneity and metastability in the design and fabrication of multifunctional HEAs that will outperform known metals and alloys over a wide range of temperatures.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Army Research Office (ARO); BIAM-UCI Research Center; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 2278640

Journal Information:: Acta Materialia, Journal Name: Acta Materialia Vol. 242; ISSN 1359-6454

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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