Exploring the hydrogen absorption and strengthening behavior in nanocrystalline face-centered cubic high-entropy alloys

The effect of marked change in grain size from coarse-grained to nanocrystalline can affect the hydrogen absorption and plastic deformation behavior in two face-centered cubic high-entropy alloys (HEAs), viz. equiatomic CoCrFeNi and CoCrFeMnNi. Thermal desorption analysis of the hydrogen-charged samples proved that grain boundaries act as hydrogen traps and thus largely increase the hydrogen contents in the nanocrystalline samples. A direct...