Structural and thermodynamic factors of suppressed interdiffusion kinetics in multi-component high-entropy materials

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chang, Shou Yi ^a   Li, Chen En ^a   Huang, Yi Chung ^a   Hsu, Hsun Feng ^a   Yeh, Jien Wei ^b   Lin, Su Jien ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84894662000     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04162     Document Type: Article

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