Phase selection rules for complex multi-component alloys with equiatomic or close-to-equiatomic compositions |
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| Authors: | GUO Sheng LIU Chain T. |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Research Fellow;2.Fellow of National Academy of Engineering, Center of Advanced Structural Materials, Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Alloying greatly expands the amount of available materials beyond the naturally existing ones, and more importantly offers the material scientists opportunities to initiatively control the composition-structure-property relationship in materials. Since commonly used metallic materials are mostly multi-component alloys, the know-how of alloying through compositional control, certainly plays a critical role in designing materials with desired structure and properties. However, alloying in multi-component alloys is an extremely complicated issue, as the alloyed products could be the amorphous phase, various solid solutions and intermetallic compounds containing two or more alloy components. By narrowing down the scope of the multi-component alloys to those with equiatomic or close-to-equiatomic compositions only, and also aiming at framing out the rules that govern the phase selection upon alloying in multi-component alloys in a broad sense, we have identified here a simple and easily executable two-parameter scheme that can effectively predict the formation of the amorphous phase, solid solutions and intermetallic compounds, in multi-component alloys, simply from the given alloy compositions. We believe this scheme reveals a clear physical scenario governing the phase selection in multi-component alloys, helps to simplify the alloy design, and benefits the futuredevelopment of advanced metallic alloys like bulk metallic glasses and high entropy alloys. |
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| Keywords: | phase selection multi-component alloys amorphous phase solid solution intermetallic compounds |
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