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The atom probe tomography results show that the Co, Fe, and Cr atoms incorporated into the Ni3Nb-type \u03b3\u2033 nanoparticles but their partitioning behaviors are significantly different. The Co element is much easier to partition into the \u03b3\u2033 nanoparticles than Fe and Cr elements. The first-principles calculations demonstrated that the different partitioning behaviors of Co, Fe and Cr elements into the \u03b3\u2033 nanoparticles resulted from the differences of their specific chemical potentials and bonding states in the \u03b3\u2033 phase.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e20120910","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,28]],"date-time":"2018-11-28T11:43:44Z","timestamp":1543405424000},"page":"910","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Elemental Phase Partitioning in the \u03b3-\u03b3\u2033 Ni2CoFeCrNb0.15 High Entropy Alloy"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Bin","family":"Han","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Feng","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Da","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhi Jun","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0883-315X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alice","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"},{"name":"Centre for Advanced Nuclear Safety and Sustainable Development, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"},{"name":"City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen 518057, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wenzhong","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"},{"name":"Centre for Advanced Nuclear Safety and Sustainable Development, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ji Jung","family":"Kai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"},{"name":"Centre for Advanced Nuclear Safety and Sustainable Development, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1153","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1254581","article-title":"A fracture-resistant high-entropy alloy for cryogenic applications","volume":"345","author":"Gludovatz","year":"2014","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"227","DOI":"10.1038\/nature17981","article-title":"Metastable high-entropy dual-phase alloys overcome the strength-ductility trade-off","volume":"534","author":"Li","year":"2016","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"14390","DOI":"10.1038\/ncomms14390","article-title":"Dislocation mechanisms and 3D twin architectures generate exceptional strength-ductility-toughness combination in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy","volume":"8","author":"Zhang","year":"2017","journal-title":"Nat. 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