Criteria for Predicting the Formation of Single-Phase High-Entropy Alloys
Abstract
High entropy alloys constitute a new class of materials whose very existence poses fundamental questions. Originally thought to be stabilized by the large entropy of mixing, these alloys have attracted attention due to their potential applications, yet no model capable of robustly predicting which combinations of elements will form a single-phase currently exists. Here we propose a model that, through the use of high-throughput computation of the enthalpies of formation of binary compounds, is able to confirm all known high-entropy alloys while rejecting similar alloys that are known to form multiple phases. Despite the increasing entropy, our model predicts that the number of potential single-phase multicomponent alloys decreases with an increasing number of components: out of more than two million possible 7-component alloys considered, fewer than twenty single-phase alloys are likely.
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
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- 1180279
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- OSTI ID: 1185375
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- AC05-00OR22725
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- Published Article
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- Physical Review. X
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- Journal Name: Physical Review. X Journal Volume: 5 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2160-3308
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- American Physical Society
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- United States
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- English
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- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Troparevsky, M. Claudia, Morris, James R., Kent, Paul R. C., Lupini, Andrew R., and Stocks, G. Malcolm. Criteria for Predicting the Formation of Single-Phase High-Entropy Alloys. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011041.
Troparevsky, M. Claudia, Morris, James R., Kent, Paul R. C., Lupini, Andrew R., & Stocks, G. Malcolm. Criteria for Predicting the Formation of Single-Phase High-Entropy Alloys. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011041
Troparevsky, M. Claudia, Morris, James R., Kent, Paul R. C., Lupini, Andrew R., and Stocks, G. Malcolm. Tue .
"Criteria for Predicting the Formation of Single-Phase High-Entropy Alloys". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011041.
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title = {Criteria for Predicting the Formation of Single-Phase High-Entropy Alloys},
author = {Troparevsky, M. Claudia and Morris, James R. and Kent, Paul R. C. and Lupini, Andrew R. and Stocks, G. Malcolm},
abstractNote = {High entropy alloys constitute a new class of materials whose very existence poses fundamental questions. Originally thought to be stabilized by the large entropy of mixing, these alloys have attracted attention due to their potential applications, yet no model capable of robustly predicting which combinations of elements will form a single-phase currently exists. Here we propose a model that, through the use of high-throughput computation of the enthalpies of formation of binary compounds, is able to confirm all known high-entropy alloys while rejecting similar alloys that are known to form multiple phases. Despite the increasing entropy, our model predicts that the number of potential single-phase multicomponent alloys decreases with an increasing number of components: out of more than two million possible 7-component alloys considered, fewer than twenty single-phase alloys are likely.},
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year = {Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011041
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