Multiprincipal Element Alloy Nanoindentation

Earlier incipient plasticity

Alloys with larger lattice distortion initiate plasticity at smaller indentation strains, offering new insight into their nanomechanical behavior.

Wang, Luling · Cao, Yang · Zhao, Yonghao

Nano Letters 2024

Advantages

Normalized critical pressure pc/Es follows a power-law relationship with lattice distortion δ