TMS High Entropy Alloy Conference

Zhouran Zhang and Bo-Shiuan Li from OMG were in Seatle last week for the TMS High Entropy Alloy World Congress.   High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) mark a recent departure from coventional metallic alloys which have an indentifiable main solvent base element, to systems in which four, five or even more, elements are present at similar concentration.  This produces particular challenges in alloy design and manufacture and in computational modeling and simulation.  Technical talks at the meeting covered these aspects along with discussion on properties, processing, and applications of high entropy alloys.

The field has seen lots of activity over recent years and attending this conference is a great way to see the latest work from other groups, catch up with collaborators and get fresh perspectives from new colleagues.  

Congrats to Zhouran for being awarded a poster prize for her work on 'Radiation-induced Damage of CrMnFeNi-based High-entropy Alloys'.  Results from collaborative projects with folk at Sheffield and Manchester Unis in the UK, and the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in India, were also presented:  Bo gave a talk on 'Investigating the Mechanical Response of Refractory High-entropy Alloys Using Ion Irradiation and Micromechanical Testing', and Ed Pickering (Manchester) spoke on 'The Design of Reduced Activation Damage Resistant High-entropy Alloys for Next-generation Nuclear Systems'

There were lighter moments for example Prof Jien-Wei Yeh, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan giving a live performance of his Song of the High Entropy Alloys - you can catch the studio version on youtube