High-throughput determination of the composition-dependent mechanical and diffusion properties in β Ti–Nb–Zr–Hf refractory alloys

A combinatorial method by integrating the diffusion couple, nanoindentation, and electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) techniques and the pragmatic numerical inverse method can offer a great promise of mapping the mechanical and diffusion properties in multicomponent alloys with various compositions, which is very vital for the selection of refractory alloys in biomedical and aerospace applications. In this work, 6 groups of bcc Ti–Nb–Zr–Hf...