Jeong Min Park, Dae Cheol Yang, Han-Jin Kim, et al. Ultra-strong and strain-hardenable ultrafine-grained medium-entropy alloy via enhanced grain-boundary strengthening[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2021, 9(7): 315-321.
DOI:
Jeong Min Park, Dae Cheol Yang, Han-Jin Kim, et al. Ultra-strong and strain-hardenable ultrafine-grained medium-entropy alloy via enhanced grain-boundary strengthening[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2021, 9(7): 315-321.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2021.1913768.
Ultra-strong and strain-hardenable ultrafine-grained medium-entropy alloy via enhanced grain-boundary strengthening
n equiatomic VCoNi medium-entropy alloy possesses high sensitivity to grain-boundary strengthening
achieved by severe lattice distortions. Its ultrafine-grain structure enables 1.5 Gigapascal yield strength even for the fully recrystallized alloy with a single face-centered cubic structure. The high density of grain boundaries also generates high back stresses via piling up of massive dislocations
and the low cross-slip probabilities produce not only robust dislocation-mediated plasticity but also high back stress contribution to flow stress
which affords high strain-hardening capability to ultrafine-grain alloys
with 1.7 Gigapascal ultimate tensile strength with remarkable ductility. Our approach provides a new method for developing ultrastrong metallic materials.