News
2024/10/07
Our long-time collaborator, Dr. Reza GHOLIZADEH from Prof. Tsuji's lab at Kyoto University, Japan comes to visit us for 2 weeks. Reza helped us a lot in the past, on tensile testing of miniature samples and also on atom probe tomography. We expect fruitful discussions with Reza, this time at Chalmers!
2024/09/24
MSE 2024 finally happens in Darmstadt. Here we organize a HEA symposium: S02: High Entropy Alloys: From basic research to industrial applications. Although the scope is much smaller than Euromat, we still manage to have 9 sessions with interesting talks. Yao and Sheng attended MSE 2024 and both presented at the S02 symposium.
2024/09/20
Yufei successfully defended her master thesis, with the title Effect of Al Addition on Oxidation Behavior of Nb-Based Refractory Alloys at Elevated Temperatures. Congratulations to Yufei and we wish you all the best with your future endeavors. Xiaolong's dedication to supervising Yufei during the past 6 months is also greatly appreciated.
2024/09/05
We welcome Mr. Dawei Zhou to join us, working as a new PhD student on the topic of refractory high-entropy alloys for potential high-temperature thermal storage applications. Entering a new area is exciting, and we wish Dawei best luck with the new challenge. Welcome to Chalmers!
2024/08/01
We warmly welcome Dr. Kaio Niitsu Campo from University of Campinas (UNICAMP) to visit us at Chalmers. During his 3-month visit, Kaio will work on microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of CoCrNi-Ti medium entropy alloys. Welcome (back), Kaio!
2024/07/10
Yao's first paper from his PhD work got published at Physical Review Materials. It's about quantifying local lattice distortion in bcc-structured refractory high-entropy alloys using mainly the neutron total scattering method. More details can be found here. Congratulations to Yao! p.s. the second paper is already in the pipeline!
2024/06/28
We welcome Dr. Salman Farissi to join us, working as a new postdoc on the topic of PFAS removal using the electrochemical advanced oxidation process (EAOP). Salman will dedicate his time to develop novel anode materials based on high-entropy oxides/graphene composites. Salman will be co-supervised by Dr. Zhenyuan (Jeff) Xia from Industrial and Materials Science and Prof. Thomas Pettersson from Architecture and Civil Engineering.
2024/05/29
Yao and Sheng attended Swedish Neutron Week 2024 held at Lund. Yao presented a poster on charactering the local lattice distortion (LLD) in refractory high-entropy alloys, using neutron total scattering.
2024/05/13
We welcome Mr. Antoine Rebeyrol and Miss. Clarisse Ducor from National Polytechnic Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology (INP-ENSIACET), Toulouse, France, to visit us for 3 months. Antoine and Clarisse will work together with Bala and Vishnu on hydrogen embrittlement of high/medium-entropy alloys.
2024/04/29
Our recent collaborations with Dr. Saurabh Nene at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur have led to a joint publication appearing in Materials & Design, on the topic of Ti-rich compositionally complex alloys, Ti-CCAs. More information can be found here.
2024/04/19
Yao presented his licentiate thesis, with the title Quantification of local lattice distortions in refractory high-entropy alloys by scattering-based techniques. More details can be found here. The discussion leader is Prof. Ru Lin Peng from Linköping University.
2024/03/14
WISE Dialogue 2024 will happen on Mar 14th and 15th this year, and in Gothenburg. The WISE community is expanding, and the WISE interaction with WASP is exciting. Kagan will attend the WISE events for the first time.
2024/03/01
A German version of Euromat, MSE 2024, will happen this September in Darmstadt. We will organize a HEA symposium there: S02: High Entropy Alloys: From basic research to industrial applications. It will have less attendants compared to Euromat, which might necessarily not be a bad thing at all.
2024/02/23
Bala successfully defended his PhD thesis, with the title Microstructure engineering of additively manufactured materials by powder bed fusion-laser beam: Cases for ferritic stainless steels and medium entropy alloys. Congratulations, Dr. Malladi!
2024/01/08
Yufei Zhao joined us as a master thesis worker. Yufei will work together with Xiaolong, on the topic of oxidation of refractory high-entropy alloys. Welcome on board, Yufei!
2023/11/30
Another good news for November! Our application to the joint WASP-WISE project call was successful. We will work together with Prof. Christian Berger at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, here at Chalmers, to use machine learning to accelerate the materials development for refractory high-entropy alloys.
2023/11/06
Sheng's 3rd VR (Swedish Research Council) project was funded! This time on corrosion of refractory high-entropy alloys in molten aluminum. We got involved in this line of research rather recently. We will probably seek one PhD student for this project soon.
2023/10/24
The second paper from Xiaolong's PhD work gets published at Materials Research Express. It a nice continuation of his first work, but this time it's not softening in the whole temperature range anymore; we managed to get softening at room temperature (hopefully to get some tensile ductility), while hardening at elevated temperatures (to maintain or to achieve the high-temperature strength). The paper can be found here.
2023/10/16
We welcome our new postdoc, Dr. Kagan Sarlar, to our team. Kagan will be involved in both the WISE and CoCoMag EU project, working on magnetocaloric materials. Kagan's work here at Chalmers will combine machine learning and experimental verification.
2023/09/04
Euromat 2023 takes place in Frankfurt. Sheng is co-organizing the B05 HEA Symposium, which has 13 (almost) full sessions. Both Xiaolong and Yao attend the HEA Symposium and present a poster and an oral talk, respectively. Bala could not join this time, but Bala's results will be presented by the main PhD supervisor, Prof. Lars Nyborg.
2023/08/29
The first paper from Xiaolong's PhD journey gets published at AIP Advances. We hope it's a late but positive start, and hopefully the second one is out soon. The paper can be found here.
2023/08/28
The very first installment of the WISE Welcome meeting is held at Kolmården, on 28-30 August 2023. Unfortunately, our new WISE postdoc Kagan cannot join this time for the WISE Welcome meeting, but very soon Kagan will be with us working on the rare-earth-element free magnetocaloric materials. We keep going towards the functionality direction of HEAs. More will happen, for sure.
2023/08/18
Xiaolong will present his licentiate thesis, with the title Alloy Design for Refractory High Entropy Alloys with Better Balanced Mechanical Properties at Both Room Temperature and Elevated Temperatures. More details can be found here. The discussion leader is Prof. Ehsan Ghassemali from Jönköping University. Half way gone for Xiaolong!
2023/07/01
Bala will visit Prof. Tsuji's lab at Kyoto University, Japan for 2 months, sponsored by the Axel Hultgrens Foundation. Bala's visit is a continuation of our fruitful collaborations with Japan, and in particular with Prof. Tsuji's group. Together, we have published quite a few papers on high-entropy alloys.
2023/06/01
Sheng was among the Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia Outstanding Reviewers in 2022. Very happy to join this list indeed, which is certainly a recognition of the done academic service for the community.
2023/05/25
Sheng attend the DSEC VII, Directionally Solidified Eutectics Conference – VII, at the impressive city of Istanbul. It was a small and nice community, and people really have passion about regular, irregular, normal and anomalous eutectics there! Maybe not so much interest for eutectic high entropy alloys there? That's okay.
2023/05/05
Sheng attended the joint WISE-WASP workshop at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). It is very nice to know that WISE and WASP will work together soon to promote the collaboration between materials science and artificial intelligence, and calls for funding will be announced later this year. AI + Materials Science is certainly fun and exciting!
2023/03/22
Sheng attended the first-ever internal WISE conference, which was held in Stockholm at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) on 22-23 March 2023. The WISE Dialogue includes the WISE community and representatives from industry and society and serves as a kick-off for future conversations covering sustainability through material science. The WISE community will meet again in the late August.
2023/02/08
This is exciting: Our second try with the EIC Pathfinder application was dramatically funded, from the waiting list! More information about the CoCoMag (Multi-property Compositionally Complex Magnets for Advanced Energy Applications) project will be revealed soon, but it is certainly coming. One more step, from us, going into the functional applications of HEAs.
2023/01/31
Together with Dr. Jörg Kaspar from Fraunhofer Institute IWS Dresden, Sheng is organising the B5 High Entropy Alloys Symposium at Euromat 2023, Frankfurt. The deadline to submit abstracts is Mar 15th. Look forward to seeing many of colleagues in the HEAs community physically in Frankfurt or virtually this September!
2023/01/02
Happy New Year! We have two visitors in the beginning of a new year: Sofia Kazi, visiting master student from University of Ioannina, Greece, and Atsuya Watanabe, visiting PhD student from Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan. Sofia will stay with us for 4 months, working together with Bala on metastable dual-phase high entropy alloys, while Astuya will stay us for about 3 months, working together with our colleague Zhenyuan Xia (Jeff) on electrodeposition of high-entropy/medium-entropy alloy coatings. Welcome, Sofia and Atsuya!
2022/11/30
Some good news to end the busy November! Our project on rare-earth-element free magnetocaloric materials, using the concept of high-entropy alloys, has been funded by WISE (Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability). More information about the WISE call and the results can be found here. We will recruit one postdoc researcher for this project (apply before Apr 7th).
2022/11/21
Sheng will deliver an invited talk online in the coming ECMetAC Days 2002. Two days after that (23/11), Sheng will deliver another invited talk at the HEA webinar organized by ASM Finland Chapter.
2022/09/24
Supported by the STINT project “Semisolid Processing of High-Entropy Alloys”, colleagues from University of Campinas (UNICAMP) will come to visit us at Chalmers. We will exchange our recent research findings regarding processing and mechanical properties of high-entropy alloys, and discuss ways to continue the collaboration on topics where we share the common research interest. Look forward to seeing some of our old friends, Joao, Rubens and Kaio!
2022/06/22
Go 1D, 2D and functional! Together with Zhenyuan (Jeff) Xia, Sheng got a new project on high-entropy sulfides/graphene composites, for advanced energy storage applications. We thank the Åforsk Foundation for the financial support!
2022/06/09
Xiaolong will visit NIMS in Japan for 3 months, partially sponsored by the JSPS Summer Program. We have high expectations on what Xiaolong can achieve during this period, and quite look forward to pushing forward the research progress on alloy development in the domain of refractory high-entropy alloys.
2022/05/31
Our long-term collaboration with Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia has led to a new PRB paper, on the NMR local study of the Al0.5TiZrPdCuNi alloy in high-entropy alloy. We are still working on this rather unique alloy, and hopefully more results will be available in the near future.
2022/05/30
Vishnu will present his master thesis on the topic of metastable quaternary high-entropy alloys. Vishnu did an excellent job on metallography, and we will further push forward the progress of the relevant work.
2022/05/18
Sheng and Yao attend the Swedish Neutron Week 2022, also an annual gathering event for SwedNess PhD students and supervisors.
2022/05/12
Sheng went to Dresden to attend the Symposium "High Entropy Alloys: Potential for industrial applications", and presented the opportunities and challenges facing eutectic high-entropy alloys and refractory high-entropy alloys. It was pleased to see indications of industrial applications for high-entropy alloys in Germany.
2022/02/07
Yao Hu joined us as new PhD student. Yao will work on the SwedNess project, focusing on lattice distortion and short-range order in refractory high-entropy alloys (to begin with, at least). Yao will be placed in the Physics Department at Chalmers, and the supervision will be shared between Magnus and Sheng, together with Ehsan from Jönköping University. Welcome, Yao!
2022/01/10
Vishnu Anilkumar joins us as a new master thesis worker. Vishnu will work closely with Bala on adjusting LB-PBF process parameters to introduce martensitic transformation to a metastable high-entropy alloy.
2021/12/26
Our collaboration with DTU and Kyoto University has led to a new MSEA publication on quantitative correlation between microstructure development and mechanical properties in the recrystallized AlCoCrFeNi2.1 eutectic high-entropy alloy, a perfect Christmas gift.
2021/12/17
The big day for Adrianna has been confirmed, and she will defend her PhD thesis just before Christmas, December 17th. We are still working very hard on the two heterogeneity engineering related manuscripts though, and we think they are exciting results! We are so grateful to all the collaborators that have been helping us from different perspectives, without whom the work would be impossible to implement and to complete.
2021/12/14
Bala will have his licentiate presentation this day, with the discussion leader being Prof. Ulf Jansson, Uppsala University.
2021/10/27
Sheng attended the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation Seminar held at Slottsviken SKF, where Sheng gave a general introduction to high-entropy alloys.
2021/09/22
Sheng will go to DESY at Hamburg for some interesting in-situ tests on high-entropy alloys. Not much can be said at the moment, but the keywords are cryogenic and high-pressure. This is the second travelling for Sheng since 2020, after coming back from Brazil last January. We still look forward to visiting Brazil and China soon, since we have on-going mobility projects with partners in these two countries.
2021/09/17
Together with Prof. Levente Vitos, Sheng will deliver the AoA Materials Science Tandem Webinar on 17 September, with the topic High Entropy Alloys – Opportunities and Challenges.
2021/09/13
Sheng is organising the B5 High Entropy Alloys Symposium at Euromat 2021 (Virtual Conference). We have 11 full sessions, with 100 minutes of live presentations for each session. Hopefully, the HEA Symposium at Euromat can be continued and importantly we can meet physically in the near future.
2021/09/10
We are now in the final stage to recruit one new PhD student on the project Lattice Distortions and Short-Range Order in Refractory High Entropy Alloys, which is financially supported by SSF (Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research), under the framework of SwedNess projects. The new PhD student will be placed in Physics Department.
2021/06/13
We are delighted to participate in a joint publication with National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, on using the new PHACOMP method and VEC rule to design novel HEAs.
2021/06/05
Our collaboration with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid has led to a new publication on using HEAs as binder in cermets.
2021/06/01
Nitesh's Materialia article on measuring phase-specific and temperature dependant lattice strain and load transfer in a eutectic HEA, AlCoCrFeNi2.1, using neutron diffraction, is formally published. On a different note, Sheng is now guest editing a special issue on HEAs in the new journal Tungsten, with the call for papers being found here.
2021/05/11
Sheng briefly presented the project idea for the new SwedNess project at the web-based Swedish Neutron Week event. We still have some issue internally with the PhD recruitment, but hopefully it will get going soon.
2021/04/21
Sheng is involved in organizing the symposium Mechanochemical Coupling in Chemical Treatment and Materials Degradation—Modeling and Experimentation at MRS 2021 Virtual Spring Meeting.
2021/03/18
Sheng attends an online workshop dedicated to high entropy alloys that is organised by ECMetAC (European Integrated Center for the Development of New Metallic Alloys and Compounds ) and gives an invited talk on phase selection rules in HEAs.
2021/01/19
STINT and NSFC have recently decided on the applications for the Joint China-Sweden Mobility programme. Our project applied together with our collaborator at Central South University, China was granted. We will go to Changsha when the pandemic tension is gone.
2021/01/07
Our first work on nucleation control in additively manufactured ferritic steels was published in Scripta Materialia. This is an outcome of an on-going collaboration work with KTH and some industrial partners. We are now also working on additive manufacturing of high-entropy and medium entropy alloys. More results will follow！
2020/10/08
According to a Stanford University led research on research (the database can be found here), Sheng is among world's top 2% scientists. Honor goes to all those who have been working with us in the past.
2020/10/01
Our new project on Lattice Distortions and Short-Range Order in Refractory High Entropy Alloys has been granted by SSF (Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research), under the framework of SwedNess projects. One new PhD student will be recruited soon, under the joint supervision of Sheng at IMS, Chalmers, Magnus Hörnqvist Colliander at Physics, Chalmers, and Ehsan Ghassemali at Materials and Manufacturing, Jönköping University.
2020/09/01
Xiaolong Li will join our group as a new PhD student. Xiaolong will mainly work on refractory high-entropy alloys, continuing what Saad has worked on previously. Welcome to join us, Xiaolong!
2020/08/21
Sheng gives his promotion lecture on the topic of refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs). This also marks the final step before Sheng will be awarded the title of Professor. Credits go to all those who worked together with us during the past 7 years. THANK YOU!
2020/08/20
Possibly Saad's final paper, about the alloying effect on the oxidation resistance of ductile refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs), went online. Read the paper here. We wish Saad all the best with his career path, and we thank him for his efforts all these years dedicating to improve the ductility and oxidation resistance of RHEAs.
2020/05/30
Saad's efforts to use alumizing to improve the oxidation resistance of refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) have paid off. We finally managed to form protective Al2O3 scale on the surface of ductile RHEAs! We are really excited to share the result with the community, with the link to our new publication provided here.
2020/04/30
Our new application to STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) Initiation Grants has been successful! This is also the third time that we receive financial support from STINT Initiation Grants. We will extend our collaborations with Profs. Rubens Caram and Joao Batista Fogagnolo at University of Unicampas, Brazil, on semi-solid processing of high-entropy alloys.
2020/03/25
Sheng joins the editorial board of the newly established Springer journal, Tungsten.
2020/01/27
Supported by CAPES, Sheng visits University of Campinas, which is located in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Sheng will attend a PhD denfense there as the committee member, and also give a presentation on physical metallurgy of high-entropy alloy. Sheng will also discuss the possible collaboration with the host, Prof. João Batista Fogagnolo, in the area of gradient structure and laser surface treatment.
2020/01/02
Our new PhD position has received 103 applications in total! Thanks for the interest, and we will start the selection process very soon. Happy New Year!
2019/12/27
Adrianna's first journal article was online. It is about detailed micro-structural characterisation of eutectic and near-eutectic high-entropy alloys. Read the article here. Congratulations, and keep it up Adrianna!
2019/12/13
Adrianna has her licentiate seminar, with the discussion leader Assistant Professor Ehsan Ghassemali from Jönköping University. Adrianna's licentiate thesis is basically about microstructure characterisation of the AlCoCrFeNi2.1 eutectic high-entropy alloy and near-eutectic AlCoCrFeNix alloys, and also recrystallisation study of the AlCoCrFeNi2.1 eutectic high-entropy alloy.
2019/11/20
Sheng's Formas application has been granted, after the VR success! More research efforts towards refractory high-entropy alloys! We will work closely with KTH on both projects.
2019/11/14
Dr. Ulrike Hecht from Access Technology, Germany, came to visit us. Ulrike and Sheng are now guest editing a special issue on high-entropy dual-phase alloys, on the journal Frontiers in Materials. More information can be found here.
2019/11/13
We have a new PhD opening, on the topic of refractory high-entropy alloys. The project is a continuation of Saad's PhD project. More information can be found here.
2019/11/04
Prof. Junhu Meng from Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, starts his two-week academic visit to our group. Welcome, Prof. Meng! On 8/11, Prof. Meng will give a talk on metal matrix high temperature self-lubricating composites.
2019/10/31
Sheng's VR (Swedish Research Council) project on ductile and oxidation resistant refractory high-entropy alloys has been funded!
2019/10/04
From today onward, this Google site will replace the previous Weebly site as the new and the only website for the High Entropy Alloys Group at Chalmers University of Technology. The previous Weebly site has been stopped (deleted) to avoid confusion.
2019/09/26
Sheng attends the summer school organised by IFW Dreseden, at Szczecin, Poland. Sheng gives an invited lecture on a brief introduction to high-entropy alloys.
2019/09/02
Sheng attends the Euromat 2019 at Stockholm, Sweden, giving a talk on ductility and oxidation resistance of refractory high-entropy alloys. Saad also attends the conference, coming all the way from Japan. In the same time, Adrianna attends the Riso Symposium at Roskilde, Denmark, giving a talk on microstructure of eutectic high-entropy alloys.
2019/07/08
Sheng attends the ISMANAM-2019 conference at Chennai, India. Sheng will present work on the balance of mechanical properties and oxidation resistance for refractory high-entropy alloys.
2019/06/11
Sheng attends the Beyond Nickel-Based Superalloys III conference at Nara, Japan. Sheng will present work on improving oxidation resistance for refractory high-entropy alloys.
2019/06/07
Adam and Niklas will present their master thesis work at the IMS department. Thanks for the hard and excellent work, and all the best for your next-stage career!
2019/05/24
Prof. Hideyuki Murakami (Yuki) from NIMS visits us at Chalmers. Yuki is the host for Saad's JSPS Fellowship in Japan.
2019/05/10
Mr. Sri Bala Aditya Malladi (Bala) joined as new PhD student working partially on additive manufacturing of HEAs. We will see how AM can bring something fresh to HEAs! Welcome, Bala!
2019/03/01
Sheng joins the Editorial Board for the journal Materials & Design, Elsevier.
2019/02/28
Symposium B6 on High Entropy Alloys at the coming Euromat 2019 has received 95 entries! Sheng is one of the co-organisers for the HEA symposium.
2019/02/02
Adrianna will go to J-PARC, Japan to carry out in-situ neutral scattering experiments during high-temperature tensile tests for the eutectic high-entropy alloys.
2019/01/21
Sheng went to Sandvik Materials Technology (SMT) located at Sandviken Sweden to attend the update meeting on the ALigHT II project, coordinated by Jönköpong University. ALigHT II is a full-scale project based on a previous pre-study project ALighT I, both supported by VINNOVA SIO Metallisk Material, on the topic of using the high-entropy alloy concept to design superalloys. It differs from our current efforts to develop high-entropy superalloys though in that ALigHT I and ALigHT II are more towards the superalloys side, while our project is more towards the high-entropy alloys side, from the compositional design perspective.
2019/01/07
We welcome two master thesis workers, Adam Lindkvist and Niklas Johansson, working together on the dual-phase (or more specifically, superalloys-like) high entropy alloys project. Adam and Niklas will be with us for about half a year. Welcome onboard!
2018/12/9
Adrianna and Sheng will attend the 2nd International Conference on High-Entropy Materials (ICHEM 2018) at Jeju, South Korea, presenting our work on eutectic high entropy alloys (EHEAs) and refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs), two most important research topics of our group.
2018/11/16
Our first work on corrosion resistance of refractory high-entropy alloys(RHEAs) is published online. While still working on improving the oxidation resistance of RHEAs, we also actively explore the functionality of RHEAs, like corrosion resistance which is topic of the new work, and also biomedical applications, with results coming out soon (hopefully).
2018/11/08
Our new work on nearly-zero TCR (temperature coefficient of resistance) high-entropy alloys is published at Advanced Materials. There are certainly still many spaces left to further explore the functionality of high-entropy alloys.
2018/10/16
Sheng visits the Institute of Plasma Physics at Czech Academy of Science, Prague. Sheng gives a general talk on high-entropy alloys there, and discusses the potential research collaboration on refractory high-entropy alloys.
2018/10/09
Our work on aluminizing of ductile refractory high-entropy alloys is published at Intermetallics. Alloying and surface treatments are two ways to enhance the oxidation resistance of refractory high-entropy alloys, and aluminizing is our first effort to try surface treatments. The paper can be found here.
2018/10/08
Sheng gave a talk on refractory high-entropy alloys internally at the Department of Industrial and Materials Science, almost five years after he delivered the department seminar last time.
2018/10/08
We are looking for master thesis workers on dual-phase high-entropy alloys or refractory high-entropy alloys. Interested students are also welcomed to contact us for the project on refractory high-entropy alloys.
2018/07/08
Adrianna attended the Thermec'2018 Conference at Paris, France. Adrianna presented her recent results on thermomechanical treatment of eutectic high-entropy alloys.
2018/06/15
We are grateful that ÅForsk Foundation funds our 3-year research project Developing Superior Ultrahigh-Temperature Alloys than Superalloys (SUTA).
2018/06/12
Saad defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Sheikh! Wish you all the best in Japan, continuing the work on refractory high-entropy alloys and maybe other high-temperature materials.
2018/06/04
Adrianna visited Koc University at Istanbul, Turkey. This is also our final leg of bilateral change between Chalmers and KU that is supported by STINT. Of course, our collaboration will continue.
2018/05/31
Sheng is invited to attend the voestalpine synergy platform held at Vienna, Austria. Sheng gives an introductory talk on high-entropy alloys.
2018/05/11
Drs. Demircan Canadinc and Amir Motallebzadeh from Koc University visit us, supported by the STINT Initiations Grants between Chalmers and Koc Univ. This is also Christina's last day staying with us. Thank you Christina, and good luck for your PhD position!
2018/04/16
Sheng visits Jozef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana at Ljubljana, Slovenia. We had a joint publication on magnetic properties of near-eutectic high-entropy alloys. Sheng gave a talk at the Institute on physical metallurgy of high-entropy alloys.
2018/04/05
Our work on accelerated oxidation, or pesting of refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) is published on Intermetallics. The results are quite important to further develop RHEAs into novel ultra-high temperature materials.
2018/03/19
Sheng visits Koc University at Istanbul Turkey, and gives a talk to faculty and students at Engineering College, as part of the STINT Initiations Grants between Chalmers and Koc Univ.
2018/03/12
Sheng participated the lunch to lunch MAX4ESSFUN Annual Meeting at Copenhagen, and had the chance to learn about the newest techniques/beamlines at neutron and synchrotron x-ray facilities.
2018/03/06
Sheng attended the half-day ALigHT project meeting at Jönköpong University. ALigHT is a pre-study project supported by VINNOVA SIO Metallisk Material, on the topic of using the high-entropy alloy concept to design superalloys.
2018/02/19
Our joint efforts with IIT Hyderabad and Kyoto University led to a new work published in Scientific Reports, which showed how partial recrystallization and inhomogeneity after thermo-mechanical treatments can be used to tune the mechanical properties of eutectic high-entropy alloys. More details can be found here.
2018/01/17
Dr. Yubin Zhang from Technical University of Denmark (DTU), visited us for collaborative research activities that are supported by MAX4ESSFUN. We will work together on understanding recrystallization behavior of eutectic high-entropy alloys using electron microscopy and synchrotron X-ray.
2018/01/02
We have a new visitor. Ms. Christina Mathiou, master student from University of Ioannina (Greece), will stay with us for 4 months. Christina will work together with Adrianna on dual-phase high-entropy alloys.
2017/12/11
Dr. Amir Motallebzadeh, Mr. Cem Bahadir Aksoy and Ms. Elif Bedir from Koc University, Turkey, visit us for one week, as part of the STINT Initiations Grants between Chalmers and Koc Univ.
2017/11/29
Adrianna goes to Jönköping University to attend the workshop on FIB-SEM Tomography for 3D Materials Characterization. We have ongoing research collaborations with Jönköping University on high-entropy alloys, which is supported by Metalliska Material, an initiative run by Sweden's innovation agency VINNOVA.
2017/11/17
We were granted a new MAX4ESSFUN supported project, on studying the annealing and re-crystallization behavior of eutectic high-entropy alloys. This is almost a seamless continuation of our on-going collaboration with DTU on using neutron or synchrotron X-ray to study the deformation and annealing behavior of high-entropy alloys.
2017/11/12
We will get more involved in using large facilities like neutron scatting and synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Adrianna will go to ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) at Grenoble, France in the middle of November, and later on in early December, Sheng and Adrianna will go to ISIS ( ISIS Neutron and Muon Source at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) at Didcot, UK, to study the recrystallization and deformation behavior of eutectic high-entropy alloys in-situ.
2017/10/18
Our new work, Effect of Heat Treatment on Borides Precipitation and Mechanical Properties of CoCrFeNiAl1.8Cu0.7B0.3Si0.1 High-Entropy Alloy Prepared by Arc-Melting and Laser-Cladding, has been selected as JOM-US's November 2017 cover story.
2017/09/19
Sheng attends the Euromat 2017 conference at Thessaloniki, Greece. Sheng talks about the solidification behavior of CoCrFeNiZrx high-entropy alloys.
2017/08/28
Sheng and Adrianna go to Technical University of Denmark (DTU), for collaboration research activities that are supported by MAX4ESSFUN, an inter-region post-graduate educational program. Adrianna will spend two weeks at DTU, doing experiments and attending symposiums. We are quite keen to utilize large facilities like synchrotron and neutron sources for our research on high entropy alloys.
2017/08/19
Adrianna will attend the RACIRI Summer School 2017 in Ronneby, Sweden, 19-26 August 2017: Grand Challenges and Opportunities with the Best X-ray and Neutron Sources.
2017/08/11
Sheng is guest editing a special issue on high-entropy alloys for Frontiers in Materials, High Entropy Materials: From Fundamentals to Applications. Deadline for submitting an abstract is 01 September, 2017.
2017/08/01
Sheng joined the Editorial Board for the open access journal Innovations in Corrosion and Materials Science, Bentham Sciences.
2017/07/12
Sheng attended the High-Entropy Alloys symposium at FimPART 2017, Bordeaux, France. Sheng gave an invited talk on using Md, the d-orbital energy level, to predict the solid solubility limit in high-entropy alloys.
2017/06/29
Our application to STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) Initiation Grants has been successful! We will initiate our collaboration with Dr. Demircan Canadinc at Koc University, Turkey, on the biomedical applications of refractory high-entropy alloys.
2017/06/12
Saad will leave for Japan for two months, under the JSPS Summer Program. Saad will stay in National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) doing collaboration research on the topic of improving oxidation resistance of refractory high-entropy alloys.
2017/06/09
Kurnia will present his master thesis on oxidation resistance of refractory high-entropy alloys. Kurnia's work is mainly about accelerated oxidation, or previously known as pesting, and ways to prevent pesting via compositional design.
2017/5/19
Our new work on solid solubility in CoCrFeNiZrx high-entropy alloys was published online at Journal of Applied Physics. This is our second work utilizing the average d-orbital energy level, Md, to predict the phase boundary between solid solid solutions and intermetallic compounds in high-entropy alloys.
2017/05/01
Our affiliation at Chalmers officially changes to Department of Industrial and Materials Science, from Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology, due to the Chalmers reorganization.
2017/04/25
Sheng is guest editing a special issue on powder metallurgy high-entropy alloys, for the journal Powder Metallurgy. More information on this special issue can be found here, noting the deadline for submission is 2017-11-11.
2017/02/01
Adrianna Lozinko joined our group as a new PhD student. Adrianna will mainly work on eutectic high-entropy alloys and dual-phase high-entropy alloys. Welcome to join us, Adrianna!
2017/01/04
Our new work on the glass formation in high-entropy alloys, Parametric Study of Amorphous High-Entropy Alloys formation from two New Perspectives: Atomic Radius Modification and Crystalline Structure of Alloying Elements, was published online at Scientific Reports.
2016/12/01
Sheng will leave for China for another 3 months of research stay, the final leg of his MoRE programme.
2016/11/29
Saad will have his licentiate (half-way of the PhD) thesis defense. Good luck with the presentation!
2016/11/10
Our paper on directly cast eutectic high-entropy alloys (EHEAs) was published online at Acta Materialia. This work is a continuation of our previous work published at Scientific Reports, and further convinces the industrial application potential of EHEAs.
2016/11/06
Sheng attended the first international conference on high-entropy materials at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Sheng presented our recent work on ductilizing refractory high-entropy alloys.
2016/11/01
Mr. Muhammad Kurnia Bijaksana (Kurnia) started his master thesis project in our group. Kurnia will work together with Saad on the improvement of the oxidation resistance of refractory high-entropy alloys, without sacrificing their ductility (too much). This is a tough research question. Good luck and welcome to join us!
2016/10/18
Saad's 2nd paper, and our 1st paper on refractory high entropy alloys (RHEAs), Alloy Design for Intrinsically Ductile Refractory High-Entropy Alloys, was accepted by Journal of Applied Physics. The topic is on strategy to ductilize RHEAs using the electron theory. We hope this is a good start for our research in the area of RHEAs.
2016/07/17
Saad attends the Beyond Nickel-Based Superalloys II Conference at Cambridge, UK. Saad gives a talk on Tuning Ductility for Refractory High-Entropy Alloys.
2016/06/14
Thomas and Sarmad presented their bachelor thesis titled Ductilizing Refractory High Entropy Alloys. We wish them two all the best for the future.
2016/06/10
Our work on applying high-entropy alloys as high-temperature thermoelectric materials is featured on Chalmers' web page.
2006/06/01
Sheng has been promoted to Associate Professor.
2016/05/01
Sheng starts his 4-month (from 1 May to 31 Aug) research stay at Dalian University of Technology, China. This is part of the MoRE (Mobility for Regional Excellence) programme.
2016/04/25
Mr. Jianquan Wan, PhD candidate at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), will visit us for two-weeks, as part of the STINT Initiations Grants between Chalmers and PolyU.
2016/03/26
Our recent work on eutectic high entropy alloys, Ultrafine-Grained AlCoCrFeNi2.1 Eutectic High-Entropy Alloy, was published on Materials Research Letters. This is a joint effort among India, Japan, China and Sweden. We will continue working on this area.
2016/03/18
Sheng will give his docent lecture titled Physical Metallurgy of High-Entropy alloys.
2016/03/15
Samrand goes to Lund to attend the 2-day user workshop on coherent soft X-ray imaging. We are not user of this technique yet, but we are very interested to learn more about it.
2016/03/12
Saad will spend 3 weeks at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, as part of the STINT Initiation Grants. Saad will mainly measure the modulus variation of some HEAs that he is currently working on, as a function of temperature.
2016/03/01
We received 88 applications for the new PhD student position. That is a quite impressive number indeed! The decision on the candidates shall be made towards the end of this March. Thanks for the interest, from all candidates who applied for this position.
2016/03/01
Chan Hien Dam (Thomas) and Sarmad Shaba start doing their bachelor thesis in our group. Thomas and Sarmad will spend around 3 months doing a joint project on refractory HEAs. Welcome!
2015/12/03
We are looking for a new PhD student on high-entropy alloys! Find the job announcement here.
2015/11/04
Sheng's entry, "solidified sunflower", for the photo competition organized by AoA Materials Science has been selected for the final 12, and will be featured in the Chalmers calendar for 2016 (the calendar will be on sale). During Materials for Tomorrow 2015, these 12 photos will be exhibited in the Student Union Building at Chalmers.
2015/11/03
Sheng's VR (Swedish Research Council) project on eutectic high-entropy alloys has been funded!
2015/10/27
Saad will present his work on using Md, the d-orbital energy level, to predict the solid solubility in high-entropy alloys at IUMRS-ICAM 2015, Jeju, Korea. The work, Predicting the Solid Solubility Limit in High-Entropy Alloys Using the Molecular Orbital Approach,will be published at Journal of Applied Physics.
2015/10/26
Samrand's paper on thermoelectric properties of high-entropy alloys, High-Entropy Alloys as Novel High-Temperature Thermoelectric Materials, is accepted by Journal of Applied Physics. We believe this is the first systematic report addressing directly the potential of using high-entropy alloys as high-temperature thermoelectric materials. The work is still ongoing and we have more interesting results coming soon.
2015/09/21
Saad and Samrand went to attend the MATRAC Summer School 'Application of Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation in Engineering Materials Science' , held in Hamburg/Ammersbek, Germany. We are quite keen to use these techniques for some detailed and advanced understanding towards high-entropy alloys.
2015/08/27
Sheng was invited to visit European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) at Noordwijk, Netherlands. Sheng discussed the potential of using high-entropy alloys for aerospace applications with engineers in the Materials Technology section of ESTEC.
2015/06/25
Sheng was awarded the MoRE (Mobility for Regional Excellence) Fellowship, supported by Region Västra Götaland Sweden. Sheng will spend 8 months within the coming two years at Dalian University of Technology, China, to work on a joint project on eutectic high-entropy alloys.
2015/06/01
Sheng was invited to join the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group. Sheng will serve as the Editorial Board Member for the Atomic and Molecular Physics panel.
2015/05/17
Our paper, Phase stability in high entropy alloys: Formation of solid-solution phase or amorphous phase, which was published on Progress in Natural Science: Materials International, won the first Shi Changxu Paper Award.
2015/04/29
Our application to STINT (The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education) Initiation Grants has been successful! We will soon initiate our collaboration with Dr. Haihui Ruan at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on the mechanistic study of high-entropy alloys.
2015/04/06
Igor Moravcik, visiting PhD student from Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic came to our group for a 3-month research exchange. Igor will work on the preparation and mechanical behavior of high-entropy alloys that are made via the powder metallurgy route (mechanical alloy plus spark plasma sintering). Welcome, Igor!
2015/03/04
New idea on high-entropy coatings presented at the conference organized by Strategic Innovation Programme Metallic Materials, Sweden. We are still developing this idea and looking for collaborators and even interested end-users.
2015/02/13
Daniel will defend his master thesis on this day, and also become the first alumnus of this group. Thanks for your diligent work and good luck!
2015/02/10
Sheng's invited article on the review of phase selection rules for cast high-entropy alloys, for Materials Science and Technology, was published online.
2014/12/09
Sheng attended the C-MAC (European Integrated Center for the Development of New Metallic Alloys and Compounds) Days 2014 at Zagreb, Croatia. Sheng gave a talk on eutectic high-entropy alloys.
2014/12/04
Sheng gave a talk on amorphous materials to members of Chinese Faculty Staff Association at Gothenburg.
2014/11/24
Sheng gave the first ever lecture to master level postgraduate students in Chalmers' pan-materials programme, on amorphous materials.
2014/11/14
Our new paper on the phase separation behavior using STEM and atom probe, Nanoscale phase separation in a fcc-based CoCrCuFeNiAl0.5 high-entropy alloy, is accepted for publication in Acta Materialia.
2014/09/01
A new project working on the replacement binder for hard metals (cemented carbide) will be supported by the Research-based Verification funding, Innovationskontor Väst.
2014/08/29
Mr. Daniel Svensson started his master thesis project in our group. Daniel will do an important literature survey on the potential of using high-entropy alloys as aero engine materials. This project is in collaboration with GKN Aerospace.
2014/08/27
Our new paper titled A Promising New Class of High-Temperature Alloys: Eutectic High-Entropy Alloys for Scientific Reports was published online. (At that time, we had no idea that the topic of eutectic high-entropy alloys would go viral in the coming 10 years. Noted by Sheng, 30/05/2023)
2014/08/14
New project on laser deposited coatings using high entropy alloys was granted by Strategic Innovation Metallic Materials. See more information here.
2014/07/20
Sheng attended the GRC (Gordon Research Conferences) Structural Nanomaterials conference at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
2014/06/02
Our new paper titled Nanoindentation characterized initial creep behavior of a high-entropy-based alloy CoFeNifor Intermetallics was published online.
2014/04/24
Our review paper titled Phase Selection in High-Entropy Alloys: From Nonequilibrium to Equilibrium for JOM was published online.
2014/04/01
Dr. Samrand Shafeie joined our group as a Postdoc researcher since April 1st, 2014, and this is not a joke! Samrand will explore the possibility and potential of using high-entropy alloys as high-temperature thermoelectric materials. This is a joint employment with Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (Prof. Anders Palmqvist). Welcome!
2014/03/31
Sheng was invited to give a talk on the background and applications of high-entropy alloys at Sandvik, a world leading manufacturing company. We will announce a master thesis project on high-entropy alloys very soon. The experiments will be carried out at Sandvik, Stockholm.
2014/03/21
Sheng gave a talk at Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China on his research work on high-entropy alloys. This was part of the preliminary bilateral collaboration activities between Chalmers and SJTU. Chalmers delegates also visited Shanghai University, Fudan University and East China University of Science and Technology.
2014/02/28
Our new paper on the experimental observation of stacking fault ribbons in laser-cladded HEAs, Thermally stable laser cladded CoCrCuFeNi high-entropy alloy coating with low stacking fault energy, was published online at Journal of Alloys and Compounds.
2014/01/09
The new postdoc opening advertisement is online.
http://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=1868
2013/11/14
Sheng was invited to give a talk on amorphous materials and high entropy alloys at the Materials Microstructure Division, Applied Physics Department, Chalmers University of Technology.
2013/11/14
Sheng gave a talk on amorphous materials and high entropy alloys at the Materials and Manufacturing Technology Department, Chalmers University of Technology.
2013/11/01
Our paper, More than entropy in high-entropy alloys: Forming solid solutions or amorphous phase, was ranked the 1st hottest paper published in Intermetallics, from July to September 2013.
2013/11/01
Mr. Saad Sheikh joined our group as a PhD student since November 1st, 2013. Saad will work on a project aiming to improve the ductility/toughness of high-entropy alloys, while keeping their high strength. This is a challenging topic in the field. Welcome on board, Saad, and good luck with your research!
2013/09/27
Our paper on the beautiful sunflower-like microstructure of near-eutectic AlxCrCuFeNi2 alloys, Sunflower-like solidification microstructure in a near-eutectic high-entropy alloy, was published online at Materials Research Letters.
2013/09/25
Our paper on the tensile tests and indentation behavior of Al0.5CrCuFeNi2 alloys, Phase stability and tensile properties of Co-free Al0.5CrCuFeNi2 high-entropy alloys, was published online at Journal of Alloys and Compounds.
2013/09/22
Sheng attended the IUMRS 2013 International Conferences on Advanced Materials at Qingdao, China.
2013/09/08
Our paper on the solid solution limit in equiatomic multi-component alloys, Solid solutioning in equiatomic alloys: Limit set by topological instability, was published online at Journal of Alloys and Compounds (letter).
2013/05/25
Our paper on the phase selection in multi-component alloys with equiatomic or close-to-equiatomic compositions, More than entropy in high-entropy alloys: Forming solid solutions or amorphous phase, was published online at Intermetallics. It is the 3rd most downloaded article in the period from June to August in 2013.
2013/05/06
The PhD student opening advertisement is online.
2013/04/01
Dr. Sheng GUO joins Chalmers University of Technology, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials and Manufacturing Technology.