Advanced High-Entropy Materials: From Structural Performance to Energy Storage
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Engineering for Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2026 | Viewed by 104
Special Issue Editors
Interests: high-entropy alloys; sliding wear; solid-particle erosion; tribo-oxidation; structure–property relationship
Interests: material structure–property correlation; nanomaterials; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Early alloys such as tin-based bronze demonstrated that alloying can enhance material performance, and this design logic has been adopted for millennia. High-entropy materials advance this strategy by incorporating multiple principal elements to enable distinct microstructures, phase stabilities, and coupled property responses. The high-dimensional compositional space of high-entropy alloys, composites, coatings, and oxides has stimulated broad interest across both structural and functional materials. As structural materials, they offer a promising combination of strength, ductility, damage tolerance, and wear and corrosion resistance under extreme environments such as high or cryogenic temperatures, high-strain-rate deformation, irradiation, and aggressive chemical attacks. As functional materials, high-entropy design is explored for catalytic and energy storage applications.
This Special Issue invites contributions spanning the synthesis (e.g., traditional melting and casting, advanced manufacturing, high-entropy oxides and ceramics), microstructural engineering, and structure–property relationships—encompassing both mechanical and electrochemical properties—of high-entropy materials. We particularly welcome studies on degradation and failure mechanisms under severe wear and electrochemical conditions. Artificial-intelligence- and machine-learning-aided prediction and analysis studies are also welcome. In addition, we encourage submissions addressing sustainability, including the use of recycled feedstocks and energy-efficient processing routes for next-generation high-entropy materials.
The topics of this Special Issue mainly include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Processing and synthesis of high-entropy materials;
- Mechanical behaviour in extreme environments (high and cryogenic temperatures, high strain rate, irradiation, aggressive chemical attacks);
- Degradation and failure mechanisms;
- High-entropy materials for energy storage;
- Sustainable high-entropy materials (recycled feedstocks and energy-efficient processing).
We welcome your submissions and look forward to your contributions to this Special Issue.
Dr. Wandong Wang
Dr. Changmin Shi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- high-entropy alloys
- high-entropy coatings
- high-entropy oxides
- mechanics
- battery electrodes
- sustainable-material design
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