Navigating the Complex Compositional Landscape of High-Entropy Alloys

Abstract

High-entropy alloys, which exist in the high-dimensional composition space, provide enormous unique opportunities for realizing unprecedented structural and functional properties. A fundamental challenge, however, lies in how to predict the specific alloy phases and desirable properties accurately. This review article provides an overview of the data-driven methods published to date to tackle this exponentially hard problem of designing high-entropy alloys. Various utilizations of empirical parameters, first-principles and thermodynamic calculations, statistical methods, and machine learning are described. In an alternative method, the effectiveness of using phenomenological features and data-inspired adaptive features in the prediction of the high-entropy solid solution phases and intermetallic alloy composites is demonstrated. The prospect of high-entropy alloys as a new class of functional materials with improved properties is featured in light of entropic effects. The successes, challenges, and limitations of the current high-entropy alloys design are discussed, and some plausible future directions are presented.

arXiv commentTo appear as a book chapter

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