articleNature CommunicationsAug 10, 2022GOLD OA

Phase-selective recrystallization makes eutectic high-entropy alloys ultra-ductile

QWQingfeng WuFHFeng HeJLJunjie LiHSHyoung Seop KimZWZhijun Wang

Northwestern Polytechnical University · Pohang University of Science and Technology · +1 more institution

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Abstract

Excellent ductility is crucial not only for shaping but also for strengthening metals and alloys. The ever most widely used eutectic alloys are suffering from the limited ductility and losing competitiveness among advanced structural materials. Here we report a distinctive concept of phase-selective recrystallization to overcome this challenge for eutectic alloys by triggering the strain hardening capacity of the duplex phases completely. We manipulate the strain partitioning behavior of the two phases in a eutectic high-entropy alloy (EHEA) to obtain the phase-selectively recrystallized microstructure with a fully recrystallized soft phase embedded in the skeleton of a hard phase. The resulting microstructure…

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  • Materials science
  • Eutectic system
  • Microstructure
  • Recrystallization (geology)
  • Alloy
  • Ductility (Earth science)
  • High entropy alloys
  • Elongation
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