High-Entropy Metal Diborides: A New Class of High-Entropy Materials and a New Type of Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramics

Joshua Gild, Yuanyao Zhang, Tyler Harrington, Sicong Jiang, Tao Hu, M. Quinn, William M. Mellor, Naixie Zhou, Kenneth S. Vecchio, Jian Luo · Scientific Reports · 2016 · engineering · 10.1038/srep37946 · record gild2016-high-entropy-metal-diborides-a-new
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HEA configurational entropy solid-solution phase Hume-Rothery ultra-high temperature ceramics entropy-stabilized oxides high-entropy metal diborides boron nets spark plasma sintering entropy stabilisation boron-net constraint on metal-metal bonds hardness oxidation resistance standard deviations of lattice spacings between basal planes experiment
Method, as described: high-energy ball milling and spark plasma sintering, characterised by XRD, SEM-EDX and aberration-corrected STEM

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object_of_studyseven equimolar five-component metal diborides, and whether each forms a single high-entropy solid-solution phase
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contributionthe first crystalline high-entropy non-oxide ceramics, and a size-difference measurand recomputed from lattice constants rather than atomic radii
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mechanismsbecause Gibbs free energy is H minus TS, a phase with large S becomes more stable as temperature rises, so a maximally mixed solid solution can win over separate compounds at high temperature
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mechanismsthe rigid 2D boron net deforms the metal cations toward a strain-free spacing in the basal plane, which compresses the size differences along a and leaves the c-axis free to express them
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limitationsa small size difference is necessary but not essential, and a very small value is not a guarantee of a single high-entropy phase
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limitationssize differences are not the only factors - mixing enthalpy and valence electron concentration may also decide whether a single phase forms
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limitationshardness and oxidation resistance are strongly affected by the porosity and oxide inclusions that this fabrication route introduces
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limitationswhether these materials are good or bad for oxidation resistance has no simple answer, and systematic property investigation is outside this study
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limitationsone of the seven compositions did not form a single phase, and the reason is not settled
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transfersthe Hume-Rothery binary solid-solution size rule, carried from alloy metallurgy into multicomponent ceramics and then re-measured
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controlssix individual metal diborides fabricated by the identical milling and sintering route, as the comparison group
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eliminates: a high-entropy advantage produced by the fabrication route rather than by the composition, since the comparison specimens were milled and sintered identically · outcome: held
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controlsporosity and oxide inclusion held constant between the high-entropy and conventional specimens rather than eliminated
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eliminates: hardness and oxidation differences being attributed to composition when microstructure - porosity, oxide inclusions - affects both significantly · outcome: held
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controlsMoB2 excluded from the rule-of-mixtures average, with the direction of the resulting bias stated
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eliminates: a rule-of-mixtures baseline inflated by a phase that is not an equilibrium bulk phase at the temperature in question · outcome: held
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controlsweight-change data outside the two temperature windows where the change exceeds measurement error
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eliminates: measurement error masquerading as oxidation - the weights are reported only in the two temperature windows where the change is large enough to exceed it, and not outside them · outcome: absent-declared-unreported
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sensesHEA = typically five or more elements in equimolar concentration, giving maximum molar configurational entropy RlnN
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sensesdelta <= 4% or 4.3% = a NECESSARY BUT NOT SUFFICIENT criterion, and it is empirical, not derived
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sensesthe same delta, recomputed from LATTICE CONSTANTS instead of atomic radii, because no radius represents the real bond lengths
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sensesdelta-c is the discriminating one and delta-a is not, because the boron net constrains the a-axis
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claim_relationscontradicts → the delta <= 4% size-difference criterion for forming a single-phase high-entropy solid solution
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note: HEB #7 has delta about 8%, double the stated maximum, and forms a single high-entropy phase anyway - so the criterion fails as a NECESSARY condition, which is the only thing it was ever claimed to be
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claim_relationsextends → Rost et al.'s entropy-stabilized oxide, the only previously reported crystalline high-entropy ceramic
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note: extends the class from oxides to borides and from cubic to layered hexagonal
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concept_edgesconfigurational entropy —causes→ solid-solution phase
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content_tagsthe inherited size-difference criterion fails: the specimen with the largest atomic-radius delta still forms a single high-entropy phase
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content_tagsdelta computed from the c lattice constant separates the six single-phase specimens from the one that failed, where the atomic-radius delta does not
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content_tagsa smaller delta-c appears to matter more than a smaller delta-a
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content_tagsSTEM imaging confirms 2D high-entropy metal layers with no layered segregation along the c-axis
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content_tagshardness and oxidation resistance exceed the average of the individual diborides made the same way, with porosity working against them
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content_tagsultra-high temperature ceramics
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content_tagsfive or more elements, equimolar, for maximum configurational entropy — None
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content_tagsthe inherited threshold: delta at most about 4% or 4.3% — None
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content_tagscomputed delta values of 3.5% to about 8%, with the 8% specimen still forming a single phase — None
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content_tagsdelta-c 3.9% to 5.2% for the six that worked, 6.2% for the one that did not — None
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content_tagssintered at 2000 degrees C for 5 minutes under 30 MPa — None
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content_tagslattice-spacing standard deviation of about 0.6% of the c parameter — None
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content_tagsstandard deviations of lattice spacings between basal planes
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