T. Yang, Y. L. Zhao, W. H. Liu, 等. Ductilizing brittle high-entropy alloys via tailoring valence electron concentrations of precipitates by controlled elemental partitioning[J]. 材料研究快报(英文), 2018,6(10):600-606.
T. Yang, Y. L. Zhao, W. H. Liu, et al. Ductilizing brittle high-entropy alloys via tailoring valence electron concentrations of precipitates by controlled elemental partitioning[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2018, 6(10): 600-606.
T. Yang, Y. L. Zhao, W. H. Liu, 等. Ductilizing brittle high-entropy alloys via tailoring valence electron concentrations of precipitates by controlled elemental partitioning[J]. 材料研究快报(英文), 2018,6(10):600-606.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2018.1518276.
T. Yang, Y. L. Zhao, W. H. Liu, et al. Ductilizing brittle high-entropy alloys via tailoring valence electron concentrations of precipitates by controlled elemental partitioning[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2018, 6(10): 600-606.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2018.1518276.
Ductilizing brittle high-entropy alloys via tailoring valence electron concentrations of precipitates by controlled elemental partitioning
BSTRACTHigh-strength high-entropy alloys (HEAs) reinforced by hard intermetallics generally show a propensity for embrittlement
significantly undercutting their applications. Here we report a strategy to intrinsically toughen strong-yet-brittle HEAs via altering the valence electron concentration (VEC) of precipitates. It was found that a decrease of the VEC of precipitates by Co substitution for Ni atoms effectively destabilizes the brittle hexagonal-ordered precipitate and promotes the formation of ductile cubic-ordered nano-precipitates in Ni–Co–Fe–Cr–Ti system. Benefiting from such a transformation
a fivefold enhancement of tensile elongation (from 7% to 35%) was successfully achieved together with a simultaneously improved strength up to ∼1.35 GPa.