The secret to the successful and widespread deployment of solar energy for thermal applications is effective and affordable heat storage. The ability to provide a high energy storage density and the ...

Entropy is a hot mess. Randomness and disorder are not exactly virtues in science. Yet it turns out, a sloppy jumble of differently sized atoms can do a better job stabilizing certain nanocrystals ...

Traditional alloy design consists of one or two principal elements alloyed with small amounts of supplementary elements. On the other hand, high entropy alloys (HEAs) contain near equimolar amounts of ...

As a newcomer in the alloy material world, high-entropy alloys exceed the traditional alloy design concept as they possess more than five elements, and generally exhibit a simple solid solution ...

A new generation of refractory alloys with excellent high-temperature performance is urgently demanded for aero-engines, gas turbines, and nuclear power plants. As the service temperature of their hot ...

A strategy of multiscale collaborative design which combines high-entropy effect, dual-phase composition, highly porous structure and foam-gelcasting-freeze drying technique leads to uniform element ...