High-Entropy Alloys: Design, Manufacturing, and Emerging Applications

High-Entropy Alloys: Design, Manufacturing, and Emerging Applications presents cutting-edge advances in the field of these materials, covering their mechanics, methods of manufacturing, and applications, all while emphasizing the link between their structure/microstructure and functional properties.

The book starts with a section on the fundamentals of high-entropy alloys (HEAs), with chapters discussing their thermodynamics, subgroups (transition metal; refractory; ceramics; metallic glasses and more), physical metallurgy, and microstructural characterization. The next section features chapters which look at manufacturing processes of HEAs, such as liquid metallurgy synthesis, in-situ synthesis, additive manufacturing, machine learning, friction stir welding, and fabrication of coatings for HEAs. The final section of the book covers applications of these materials, including their use as irradiation-resistant structural materials, catalyst materials, electrode materials, HEAs for solid hydrogen storage, and more. The book is a key resource for academic researchers, grad students, and industry professionals working with HEAs across a range of disciplines and applications including aerospace, functional materials, catalyst materials, gas storage, sensing, super-conducting materials, biomedical, civil engineering, energy storage, and energy materials.

• Covers the mechanics, manufacturing, and applications of functionally-oriented high-entropy alloys (HEAs)
• Discusses the metallurgical composition of HEAs, their microstructural characterization, thermal stability, and how to manufacture them via powder metallurgy, additive manufacturing, and friction stir welding
• Reviews applications of HEAs such as for irradiation-resistant structural materials, in biomedical settings, as catalyst materials, for solid hydrogen storage, and more

Ghulam Yasin is a researcher in the School of Environment and Civil Engineering at Dongguan University of Technology, Guangdong, China. His expertise covers the design and development of hybrid devices and technologies of carbon nanostructures and advanced nanomaterials for for real-world impact in energy-related and other functional applications.

Dr. Muhammad Abubaker Khan received his Master of Engineering in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering from the College of Engineering and Emerging Technology, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. He did his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He did his post-doctorate at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. Currently, he is working as an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing. China. Dr Abubaker has over 60 publications in well-reputed peer-reviewed international journals. He is the author of several book and has been awarded various national and international honours and awards. He is currently a regular reviewer for over 10 journals. Dr Abubaker serves as guest editor for several journals. His research focuses on designing and developing lightweight high entropy alloys for aerospace applications.

Dr Mohamed Afifi received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Benha university- Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra-Cairo Egypt. He did his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, and was then a research fellow at Brunel University in the UK until July 2022. Dr Afifi is currently an assistant professor in the Mechanical engineering program at the faculty of engineering and applied sciences, Nile University, Giza, Egypt. His research focuses on designing and developing high mechanical performance lightweight materials.

Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.

Dr. Yong Zhang is a scientist in the field of High entropy alloys (HEAs) and has published more than 300 research articles. The first body-centred cubic HEA was synthesised with high strength and entropy. He is also a committee member of the amorphous Metals Society, China Materials Research and Nuclear Materials Society. Dr Zhang participated in organizing many conferences on HEAs. He is also a guest professor at the North Minzu University of China. He has been selected as one thousand talents and new century excellent talent of the Ministry of Education. He has edited albums of “Serration and Noise Behaviours in Advanced Materials” and “Nanostructured HEAs”. “The new advances in HEAs”, “bcc structured HEAs”, etc. Professor Zhang devoted himself to studying serration behaviour, high-throughput technology and collective effect in materials science.