Order and Disorder in Amorphous and High-Entropy Materials

Order and disorder are important principles in materials science in which entropy is a measure of disorder in a system. For example, recently developed high-entropy alloys and amorphous alloys have drawn interest based on the ability to design their disorder to bring out different material characteristics. High-entropy alloys are controlled by chemical disorder, whereas amorphous alloys are governed by topological disorder. There is often a need...