A Removed: disordered metal with five or more elements and equiatomic composition. It is stabilized by entropy, at least at higher temperaturesAdded: solid solution alloy exhibiting a significant variation in elemental composition, frequently resulting in a disordered microstructure and enhanced mechanical performance.
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A subset of MPEAs where elements are in near-equiatomic ratios, and high configurational entropy stabilizes single-phase solid solutions. One can generate such kind of disordered materials using Boltzmann distributions. Legacy association inferred
A subset of MPEAs where elements are in near-equiatomic ratios, and high configurational entropy stabilizes single-phase solid solutions.Legacy association inferred
The high-entropy alloy definition should be measured by the configurational entropy (per atom) for a given composition. High-entropy alloys do not necessarily have exceptional mechanical properties. Often, they don't. Legacy association inferred