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Application Prospects and Microstructural Features in Laser-Induced Rapidly Solidified High-Entropy Alloys

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Recently, high-entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted much interest in the materials community, as they offer massive opportunities to observe new phenomena, explore new structure, and develop new materials. Particularly, it is attractive to prepare high-performance HEA coatings by laser-induced rapid solidification, which can be formed on the surface of components and parts in a variety of sizes and shapes with a lower cost in comparison with those bulk material fabrication methods. From the technical point of view, laser-induced rapid solidification could hamper the compositional segregation, improve the solubility in solid-solution phases, and lead to the strengthening effect by the grain refinement. This article reviews the recent work on the typical microstructural features and the mechanical and chemical properties in laser-induced rapidly solidified HEAs, and these data are compared with conventional Co- and Ni-based alloy coatings. The article concludes with suggestions for future research and development in HEAs, from considerations of their characteristic properties.

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The authors thank the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 51271001, the Open Project of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallic Materials under Grant No. AMM201201, and the University Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province of China under Grant No. KJ2014A063. Some of the work described in this review article was supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. PolyU 533910E).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan, 243002, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Zhang & Yi-Zhu He

  2. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallic Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Zhang, Ye Pan & Ji-Li Wu

  3. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Research Center, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    T. M. Yue

  4. Surface and Microstructure Engineering Group, Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Sheng Guo

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Zhang, H., Pan, Y., He, YZ. et al. Application Prospects and Microstructural Features in Laser-Induced Rapidly Solidified High-Entropy Alloys. JOM 66, 2057–2066 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-014-1036-6

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