The Formation and Stability of Bulk Amorphous and High Entropy Alloys

Szabó, Attila and Bán, Krisztián and Hlinka, Viktor and Pásztor, Judit and Lovas, Antal (2021) The Formation and Stability of Bulk Amorphous and High Entropy Alloys. ACTA MATERIALIA TRANSYLVANICA (EN), 4 (1). pp. 51-57. ISSN 2601-8799

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Abstract

Two kinds of phase stabilization mechanism are discussed and compared: the first is characteristic of the formation of bulk amorphous alloys, in which the high supercooling ability of multicomponent liquids is responsible for the glassy phase stabilization. Here the hindered nucleation of crystalline phases is the center phenomenon. The origin of this hindering is the slowing atomic mobility in the supercooling melt. In contrast the melt supercooling is negligible during the high entropy alloy formation. It is believed that stability of the crystalline single fcc phase is the consequence of the characteristic of high configurational entropy at high temperatures. However, the significance of this entropy-dominated stabilization is overestimated in several references. It has been concluded that transition metal contraction (arising from the d electron participation in the overall bonding state) does also contribute to the high temperature stability of fcc single phase in the high entropy alloys.

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