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Phase Selection in High-Entropy Alloys: From Nonequilibrium to Equilibrium

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High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have been investigated considerably in the last decade. The phase selection in HEAs has attracted much attention recently, especially on forming of the solid solutions. Up to now, phase diagrams of most HEAs are still not well developed, and the empirical phase selection rules play an important role in HEAs area. In this brief review, the physical factors controlling the phase stability in HEAs are discussed, and the phase selection rules are identified. Different from previous results, the rules on equilibrium phase selection within a certain temperature range are carefully reviewed and presented in this article.

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This research is supported by the Research Grant Council (RGC), the Hong Kong Government, through the General Research Fund (GRF) under the project numbers CityU/521411. Zhijun Wang is supported by the GRF Grant, the Hong Kong scholar program, and the National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of China under the project number 2013M542385.

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  1. Center of Advanced Structural Materials, Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

    Zhijun Wang & C. T. Liu

  2. State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, People’s Republic of China

    Zhijun Wang

  3. Surface and Microstructure Engineering Group, Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96, Göteborg, Sweden

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Wang, Z., Guo, S. & Liu, C.T. Phase Selection in High-Entropy Alloys: From Nonequilibrium to Equilibrium. JOM 66, 1966–1972 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-014-0953-8

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