Zhang Y. Functional High Entropy Alloys and Compounds 2026

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An up-to-date guide to understanding, designing, and using high entropy materials.
In Functional High Entropy Alloys and Compounds, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive exploration of high entropy materials for functional applications. It’s an interdisciplinary discussion highlighting the role of high entropy materials in various industries and examines the real-world applications of high entropy alloys and compounds. The authors illustrate the potential of these materials to transform different industries and cover both bulk HEA materials and HEA nanoparticles.
Functional High Entropy Alloys and Compounds offers a structured and in-depth exploration of high entropy materials. It examines critical fundamentals, including their characteristics, structures, phase transformations, and microstructures, as well as corrosion, anti-oxidation, and additive manufacturing and phase control.
Readers will also find:
A thorough introduction to the functional properties of high entropy materials.
Comprehensive explorations of the real-world applications of high entropy materials, including 3D printing, thermoelectrics, optoelectronics, thermal catalysts, electro-catalysts, and energy storage.
Practical discussions of nanoscale high entropy materials and high entropy materials for thermal-catalytic applications.
Complete treatments of clean energy and electrocatalysis and high entropy materials for energy storage.
Perfect for materials scientists, metallurgists, electrochemists, and catalytic chemists, Functional High Entropy Alloys and Compounds will also benefit aerospace engineers and physicians and thermodynamics physicists.
High-Entropy Alloys and Compounds: Fundamentals
Extreme Conditions and Novel Structure Design
Corrosion and Antioxidation
Additive Manufacturing and Phase Control
Functional Properties: Thermal, Electric, Magnetic, and Optics
Nanoscale High-Entropy Materials
High-Entropy Materials for Thermal-Catalytic Applications
Clean Energy and Electrocatalysis
High-Entropy Materials for Energy Storage Applications
Future Trends and Concluding Regards