On purpose of studying the sluggish diffusion of high-entropy alloys, three different face centered cubic Co-Cr-Cu-Fe-Ni high-entropy alloys were prepared, and assembled into three groups of sandwich- type diffusion m...On purpose of studying the sluggish diffusion of high-entropy alloys, three different face centered cubic Co-Cr-Cu-Fe-Ni high-entropy alloys were prepared, and assembled into three groups of sandwich- type diffusion multiple annealed at 1273, 1323, and 1373 K respectively. By means of the electron probe microanalyzer technique and recently developed numerical inverse method, the composition- dependent interdiffusivities at different temperatures were effectively evaluated by minimizing the residual between the model-predicted compositions/interdiffusion fluxes and the respectively experi- mental ones. After that, the tracer diffusivities were predicted based on the assessed mobility parameters and thermodynamic descriptions with the simplified ideal solution model. The comprehensive compari- son between the interdiffusivities/tracer diffusivities in the Co-Cr-Cu-Fe-Ni high-entropy alloys and those in sub-binary, ternary, quaternary and other quinary alloys indicates that the sluggish diffusion exists in interdiffusion instead of tracer diffusion for the present Co-Cr-Cu-Fe-Ni high-entropy alloys.展开更多
Rechargeable magnesium batteries(RMBs)have been considered a promising“post lithium-ion battery”system to meet the rapidly increasing demand of the emerging electric vehicle and grid energy storage market.However,th...Rechargeable magnesium batteries(RMBs)have been considered a promising“post lithium-ion battery”system to meet the rapidly increasing demand of the emerging electric vehicle and grid energy storage market.However,the sluggish diffusion kinetics of bivalent Mg^(2+)in the host material,related to the strong Coulomb effect between Mg^(2+)and host anion lattices,hinders their further development toward practical applications.Defect engineering,regarded as an effective strategy to break through the slow migration puzzle,has been validated in various cathode materials for RMBs.In this review,we first thoroughly understand the intrinsic mechanism of Mg^(2+)diffusion in cathode materials,from which the key factors affecting ion diffusion are further presented.Then,the positive effects of purposely introduced defects,including vacancy and doping,and the corresponding strategies for introducing various defects are discussed.The applications of defect engineering in cathode materials for RMBs with advanced electrochemical properties are also summarized.Finally,the existing challenges and future perspectives of defect engineering in cathode materials for the overall high-performance RMBs are described.展开更多
This paper aims to investigate the thermal behavior and crystallization kinetics of TiZrHfNiCu high entropy bulk metallic glass (HE-BMG) alloy using the standard procedure of Differential Scanning Calorimetric (DSC) a...This paper aims to investigate the thermal behavior and crystallization kinetics of TiZrHfNiCu high entropy bulk metallic glass (HE-BMG) alloy using the standard procedure of Differential Scanning Calorimetric (DSC) annealing technique.</span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The alloy was produced using an arc melting machine with a critical diameter of 1.5 mm. The crystallization kinetics and phase transformation mechanism of TiZrHfNiCu HE-BMG was investigated under the isochronal condition at a single heating run based on the Johnson-Mehl-</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Avrami (JMA) theory. In isochronal heating, the apparent activation energy for glass transition and crystallization events w</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">as</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> analyzed by Kissinger and Ozawa methods. The average activation energy value for crystallization of TiZrHfNiCu amorphous alloys in isochronal modes was 226.41 kJ/mol for the first crystallization and 297.72 kJ/mol for second crystallization stages. The crystallization mechanism of the first step was dominated by two</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> and three-dimensional growth with increasing nucleation rate, while the crystallization mechanism in the second stage was dominated by two-dimensional crystallization growth with a constant nucleation rate. The diffusion mechanism result proved the theory of sluggish atomic diffusion of HEA at elevated temperature.展开更多
It is well known that the grain size of high-entropy ceramics is quite small owing to the sluggish diffusion effect. However, abnormal grain growth often occurs in high-entropy pseudobrookite ceramics, ultimately resu...It is well known that the grain size of high-entropy ceramics is quite small owing to the sluggish diffusion effect. However, abnormal grain growth often occurs in high-entropy pseudobrookite ceramics, ultimately resulting in the formation of many abnormally grown grains with a grain size as large as 50 μm. To study this phenomenon, the grain growth behavior of high-entropy pseudobrookite ceramics was systematically investigated in this paper. The results demonstrate that the starting material powders first react with each other to form a high-entropy intermediate phase and calcined TiO_(2) powders (TiO_(2)-1100 ℃), and then as the sintering temperature increases, the formed high-entropy intermediate phase further reacts with TiO_(2)-1100 ℃ to form high-entropy pseudobrookite ceramics. Thus, in this system, in addition to the sluggish diffusion effect, the grain sizes of the high-entropy intermediate phase and TiO_(2)-1100 ℃ also affect the morphology of high-entropy pseudobrookite. Compared to nanosized TiO_(2), micron-sized TiO_(2) has a lower sintering activity. Therefore, the high-entropy intermediate phases (Mg,Co,Ni,Zn)TiO_(3) and TiO_(2)-1100 ℃ prepared with micron-sized starting materials exhibit lower grain sizes, finally resulting in the formation of high-entropy (Mg,Co,Ni,Zn)Ti_(2)O_(5) with small grain sizes. Moreover, nano-indentation and thermal conductivity tests were carried out on high-entropy (Mg,Co,Ni,Zn)Ti_(2)O_(5) with different morphologies. The results show that the hardness of high-entropy (Mg,Co,Ni,Zn)Ti_(2)O_(5) increases from 6.05 to 9.95 GPa as the grain size increases, whereas the thermal conductivity decreases from 2.091±0.006 to 1.583±0.006 W·m^(−1)·K^(−1). All these results indicate that high-entropy (Mg,Co,Ni,Zn)Ti_(2)O_(5) with a small grain size is a potential material for thermal protection.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51474239)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2016YFB0301101)+1 种基金financial support from the Huxiang Youth Talent Plan released by Hunan Province,Chinathe project supported by State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy Foundation,Central South University,Changsha,China
文摘On purpose of studying the sluggish diffusion of high-entropy alloys, three different face centered cubic Co-Cr-Cu-Fe-Ni high-entropy alloys were prepared, and assembled into three groups of sandwich- type diffusion multiple annealed at 1273, 1323, and 1373 K respectively. By means of the electron probe microanalyzer technique and recently developed numerical inverse method, the composition- dependent interdiffusivities at different temperatures were effectively evaluated by minimizing the residual between the model-predicted compositions/interdiffusion fluxes and the respectively experi- mental ones. After that, the tracer diffusivities were predicted based on the assessed mobility parameters and thermodynamic descriptions with the simplified ideal solution model. The comprehensive compari- son between the interdiffusivities/tracer diffusivities in the Co-Cr-Cu-Fe-Ni high-entropy alloys and those in sub-binary, ternary, quaternary and other quinary alloys indicates that the sluggish diffusion exists in interdiffusion instead of tracer diffusion for the present Co-Cr-Cu-Fe-Ni high-entropy alloys.
基金support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.22225801,22178217 and 22308216)supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,conducted at Tongji University.
文摘Rechargeable magnesium batteries(RMBs)have been considered a promising“post lithium-ion battery”system to meet the rapidly increasing demand of the emerging electric vehicle and grid energy storage market.However,the sluggish diffusion kinetics of bivalent Mg^(2+)in the host material,related to the strong Coulomb effect between Mg^(2+)and host anion lattices,hinders their further development toward practical applications.Defect engineering,regarded as an effective strategy to break through the slow migration puzzle,has been validated in various cathode materials for RMBs.In this review,we first thoroughly understand the intrinsic mechanism of Mg^(2+)diffusion in cathode materials,from which the key factors affecting ion diffusion are further presented.Then,the positive effects of purposely introduced defects,including vacancy and doping,and the corresponding strategies for introducing various defects are discussed.The applications of defect engineering in cathode materials for RMBs with advanced electrochemical properties are also summarized.Finally,the existing challenges and future perspectives of defect engineering in cathode materials for the overall high-performance RMBs are described.
文摘This paper aims to investigate the thermal behavior and crystallization kinetics of TiZrHfNiCu high entropy bulk metallic glass (HE-BMG) alloy using the standard procedure of Differential Scanning Calorimetric (DSC) annealing technique.</span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The alloy was produced using an arc melting machine with a critical diameter of 1.5 mm. The crystallization kinetics and phase transformation mechanism of TiZrHfNiCu HE-BMG was investigated under the isochronal condition at a single heating run based on the Johnson-Mehl-</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Avrami (JMA) theory. In isochronal heating, the apparent activation energy for glass transition and crystallization events w</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">as</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> analyzed by Kissinger and Ozawa methods. The average activation energy value for crystallization of TiZrHfNiCu amorphous alloys in isochronal modes was 226.41 kJ/mol for the first crystallization and 297.72 kJ/mol for second crystallization stages. The crystallization mechanism of the first step was dominated by two</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> and three-dimensional growth with increasing nucleation rate, while the crystallization mechanism in the second stage was dominated by two-dimensional crystallization growth with a constant nucleation rate. The diffusion mechanism result proved the theory of sluggish atomic diffusion of HEA at elevated temperature.
基金financial support from the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2023YFB3711200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52172072).
文摘It is well known that the grain size of high-entropy ceramics is quite small owing to the sluggish diffusion effect. However, abnormal grain growth often occurs in high-entropy pseudobrookite ceramics, ultimately resulting in the formation of many abnormally grown grains with a grain size as large as 50 μm. To study this phenomenon, the grain growth behavior of high-entropy pseudobrookite ceramics was systematically investigated in this paper. The results demonstrate that the starting material powders first react with each other to form a high-entropy intermediate phase and calcined TiO_(2) powders (TiO_(2)-1100 ℃), and then as the sintering temperature increases, the formed high-entropy intermediate phase further reacts with TiO_(2)-1100 ℃ to form high-entropy pseudobrookite ceramics. Thus, in this system, in addition to the sluggish diffusion effect, the grain sizes of the high-entropy intermediate phase and TiO_(2)-1100 ℃ also affect the morphology of high-entropy pseudobrookite. Compared to nanosized TiO_(2), micron-sized TiO_(2) has a lower sintering activity. Therefore, the high-entropy intermediate phases (Mg,Co,Ni,Zn)TiO_(3) and TiO_(2)-1100 ℃ prepared with micron-sized starting materials exhibit lower grain sizes, finally resulting in the formation of high-entropy (Mg,Co,Ni,Zn)Ti_(2)O_(5) with small grain sizes. Moreover, nano-indentation and thermal conductivity tests were carried out on high-entropy (Mg,Co,Ni,Zn)Ti_(2)O_(5) with different morphologies. The results show that the hardness of high-entropy (Mg,Co,Ni,Zn)Ti_(2)O_(5) increases from 6.05 to 9.95 GPa as the grain size increases, whereas the thermal conductivity decreases from 2.091±0.006 to 1.583±0.006 W·m^(−1)·K^(−1). All these results indicate that high-entropy (Mg,Co,Ni,Zn)Ti_(2)O_(5) with a small grain size is a potential material for thermal protection.
