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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Metallurgy
  • Mechanical Engineering

Background:

  • Eutectic alloys, widely used in structural applications, exhibit limited ductility, hindering their competitiveness against advanced materials.
  • Improving ductility is essential for both the shaping and strengthening of metals and alloys.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To overcome the limited ductility challenge in eutectic alloys.
  • To introduce a novel concept of phase-selective recrystallization for enhancing strain hardening capacity.

Main Methods:

  • Manipulating strain partitioning behavior in a eutectic high-entropy alloy (EHEA).
  • Achieving a phase-selectively recrystallized microstructure with a fully recrystallized soft phase within a hard phase skeleton.

Main Results:

  • The developed microstructure eliminated weak boundaries, fully releasing the strain hardening capacity of the EHEA.
  • The phase-selectively recrystallized EHEA demonstrated high ductility with ~35% uniform elongation and a true stress of ~2 GPa.

Conclusions:

  • Phase-selective recrystallization is a distinctive and universal concept for duplex alloys with soft and hard phases.
  • This approach opens new possibilities for traditional eutectic alloys to serve as high-strength metallic materials.