A nanocrystalline AlCoCuNi medium-entropy alloy with high thermal stability via entropy and boundary engineering

Autor: T. Zhang, C.S. Liu, Y. Xiong, Z.M. Xie, R. Liu, J.F. Yang, H.W. Deng, Ming-Shan Wang, Qi-Wu Fang, Yuntang Chen, X.P. Wang
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Materials Science and Engineering: A. 774:138925
ISSN: 0921-5093
Popis: A promising strategy involving the synergetic effects of the high-entropy engineering and interface architectures has been proposed to realize the thermal stability of nanocrystalline alloys. A bulk dual-phase nanocrystalline (DPNC-) AlCoCuNi medium-entropy alloy was prepared by mechanical alloying (MA) and spark plasma sintering (SPS) process. These DPNC structures include Cu-rich and AlCoNi-rich nanocrystallines (NCs) with an average grain size of 46 nm. This DPNC-AlCoCuNi material could maintain the nanostructures as well as a high hardness of about 580 HV even after annealing at 900 °C for 50 h. The extremely high thermal stability has been attributed to the extensive thermal-stabled low-energy phase boundaries, low-angle grain boundaries, the high-entropy and sluggish diffusion effects.
Databáze: OpenAIRE