Handbook of High Entropy Alloys: Fundamentals to Applications

by Shashanka Rajendrachari (Editor)

Overview

Handbook of High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of these advanced materials from foundational principles to synthesis techniques, advanced characterizations, and preparation methods. It also explores conventional as well as novel and emerging applications.

• Provides a brief introduction to HEAs, offering essential background for readers new to the field
• Covers various metallurgical techniques, starting from the traditional to advanced techniques used to prepare HEAs
• Discusses the chances of forming various possible phases and their predictions using different methods
• Details advanced instruments used to characterize microstructural, mechanical, corrosion, wear, and oxidative resistance
• Investigates corrosion and catalytic, high-temperature, and high-strength properties
• Describes an array of applications such as hydrogen splitting, energy conversion, electrochemical sensors, fuel cells, and batteries

This wide-ranging reference offers researchers, engineers, and engineering students a complete understanding of the preparation of high entropy alloys for modern and advancing applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032855578
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	11/03/2025
Series:	Emerging Materials and Technologies
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Shashanka Rajendrachari is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Global Academy of Technology, Bengaluru, India. He was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Bartin University, Turkey. He earned a PhD at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. He is the first recipient of the prestigious Powder Metallurgy Student of the Year Award by the Powder Metallurgy Association of India for 2015 at IIT Bombay. He was awarded the prestigious Young Scientist 2020 Award at the Fourth International Scientist Awards ceremony on engineering, science, and medicine in Chennai, India. He is listed in the top 2% of scientists in the world for 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, as reported by Stanford University, USA, and published by Elsevier. He was awarded third place for the project competition in the Fifth R&D Project Market held in Turkey in 2022. He is experienced in preparing nano-structured stainless-steel powders, high entropy alloys, and shape memory alloys by the mechanical alloying method. He has more than eight years of research and teaching experience and has published more than 80 research articles, 1 German patent, 18 books and 15 book chapters in various peer-reviewed international publications. He has more than 3000 citations. His areas of research include powder metallurgy, mechanical alloying, nanomaterials, corrosion, electrochemical sensors, etc.

Table of Contents

Section I: Introduction to High Entropy Alloys. 1. A Brief History and the Advances of High Entropy Alloys. 2. An Introduction to High Entropy Alloys. Section II: Preparation and Characterization of High Entropy Alloys. 3. Preparation of High Entropy Alloys by Various Metallurgical Methods. 4. Thermodynamic Designing of High Entropy Alloys. 5. Advanced Characterization of High Entropy Alloys. Section III: Properties of High Entropy Alloys. 7. Mechanical and Structural Properties of High Entropy Alloys. 8. Thermal Stability of Nanocrystalline High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) Synthesized by Mechanical Alloying (MA). 9. Corrosion and Radiation Resistance Properties of High Entropy Alloys. Section IV: Applications of High Entropy Alloys. 10. High Entropy Alloys as Alternatives to Ni-Based Superalloys. 11. Aerospace Applications of High Entropy Alloys. 12. Novel Electrochemical Sensing Applications of High Entropy Alloys. 13. Applications of High Entropy Alloys as Catalysts and as Coating Materials. 14. Other Advanced Applications and the Future of High Entropy Alloys.