Searching for Next Single-Phase High-Entropy Alloy Compositions

Entropy

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4504-4519

  Gao, Michael C ^a,b   Alman, David E ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations; BCC; CALPHAD; Diffusion constants; FCC; HCP; High entropy alloys; Pair correlation function; Phase diagrams; Solid solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 85126690551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e15104504     Document Type: Article

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