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ReviewScience advances2024

Sustainable high-entropy materials?

Liuliu Han, Wangzhong Mu, Shaolou Wei, Peter K Liaw, Dierk Raabe

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Review in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Sustainable Materials Design With Multi-Modal Artificial Intelligence.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Liuliu HanMax Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Max-Planck-Straße 1, 40237 Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2332-2868
Wangzhong MuEngineering Materials, Department of Engineering Science and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0533-6729
Shaolou WeiMax Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Max-Planck-Straße 1, 40237 Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1433-1201
Peter K LiawDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2200, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0185-3411
Dierk RaabeMax Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Max-Planck-Straße 1, 40237 Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0194-6124

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-entropy materials (HEMs) show inspiring structural and functional properties due to their multi-elemental compositions. However, most HEMs are burdened by cost-, energy-, and carbon-intensive extraction, synthesis, and manufacturing protocols. Recycling and reusing HEMs are challenging because their design relies on high fractions of expensive and limited-supply elements in massive solid solutions. Therefore, we review the basic sustainability aspects of HEMs. Solutions include using feedstock with lower carbon and energy footprints, sustainable primary synthesis routes from minerals, attenuation of the equimolar alloying rule, and a preference for scrap and dumped waste for secondary and tertiary synthesis. The high solubility, compositional flexibility, and chemical robustness of HEMs offer pathways for using higher fractions of mixed and contaminated scrap and waste feedstocks, which are not admissible for synthesizing conventional materials. We also discuss thermodynamic and kinetic design strategies to reconcile good material properties with high impurity tolerance and variable compositions.

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PMCPMC11633748

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