21-Component compositionally complex ceramics: Discovery of ultrahigh-entropy weberite and fergusonite phases and a pyrochlore-weberite transition
21-Component compositionally complex ceramics: Discovery of ultrahigh-entropy weberite and fergusonite phases and a pyrochlore-weberite transition
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DOI:
10.1007/s40145-022-0575-5
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发表时间:
2021-12
影响因子:
16.9
通讯作者:
Mingde Qin;Heidy Vega;Dawei Zhang;S. Adapa;Andrew J. Wright;Renkun Chen;Jian Luo
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作者:
Mingde Qin;Heidy Vega;Dawei Zhang;S. Adapa;Andrew J. Wright;Renkun Chen;Jian Luo
Two new high-entropy ceramics (HECs) in the weberite and fergusonite structures, along with the unexpected formation of ordered pyrochlore phases with ultrahigh-entropy compositions and an abrupt pyrochlore-weberite transition, are discovered in a 21-component oxide system. While the Gibbs phase rule allows 21 equilibrium phases, 9 out of the 13 compositions examined possess single HEC phases (with ultrahigh ideal configurational entropies: ∼2.7kBper cation or higher on one sublattice in most cases). Notably, (15RE1/15)(Nb1/2Ta1/2)O4possess a single monoclinic fergusonite (C2/c) phase, and (15RE1/15)3(Nb1/2Ta1/2)1O7form a single orthorhombic (C2221) weberite phase, where 15RE1/15represents Sc1/15Y1/15La1/15Pr1/15Nd1/15Sm1/15Eu1/15Gd1/15Tb1/15Dy1/15Ho1/15Er1/15Tm1/15Yb1/15Lu1/15. Moreover, a series of eight (15RE1/15)2+x(Ti1/4Zr1/4Ce1/4H1/4)2−2x(Nb1/2Ta1/2)xO7specimens all exhibit single phases, where a pyrochlore-weberite transition occurs within 0.75 <x< 0.8125. This cubic-to-orthorhombic transition does not change the temperature-dependent thermal conductivity appreciably, as the amorphous limit may have already been achieved in the ultrahigh-entropy 21-component oxides. These discoveries expand the diversity and complexity of HECs, towards many-component compositionally complex ceramics (CCCs) and ultrahigh-entropy ceramics.