High Entropy Alloy

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Cartoon of the AlCoCrFeNi high entropy alloy (HEA) with body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice. HEAs also come in face-centered cubic (FCC) and (less frequently) hexagonal close packing (HCP). BCC HEAs typically have high yield strength and low ductility, vice versa for FCC HEAs. Wiki article.