Liquid metal solvents for high entropy and atomically configured systems

从结构熵到原子有序，高熵合金是冶金领域未来的颠覆者，在开发高熵合金方面仍存在重大挑战。为了应对这些挑战，我们将探索液态金属溶剂，以合成高熵和原子构型的系统，这些系统是由活性元素和高熔点元素在金属溶剂中稳定的组合而成的。分子印迹、机械和电化学触发器将控制界面原子组织和沉淀。在界面和体中的生长机制，将通过高能探测技术和计算模拟来探索。我们将为未来的催化和传感概念提供新的冶金范例。

Significant challenges remain in developing high entropy alloys, which are future disruptors in metallurgy, ranging from configurational entropy to atomic ordering. To address such challenges, we will explore liquid metal solvents for synthesising high entropy and atomically configured systems from the combination of reactive and high melting point elements stabilised in metallic solvents. Molecular imprinting, mechanical and electrochemical triggers will control interfacial atomic organisation and precipitation. The growth mechanisms, both at the interface and in the bulk, will be explored by high energy probing techniques and computational simulations. We will offer new metallurgical paradigms for future catalysis and sensing concepts.