Handbook of High Entropy Alloys: Fundamentals to Applications
About this ebook
- Provides a brief introduction to HEAs, offering essential background for readers new to the field
- Covers various metallurgical techniques, starting from the traditional to advanced techniques used to prepare HEAs
- Discusses the chances of forming various possible phases and their predictions using different methods
- Details advanced instruments used to characterize microstructural, mechanical, corrosion, wear, and oxidative resistance
- Investigates corrosion and catalytic, high-temperature, and high-strength properties
- Describes an array of applications such as hydrogen splitting, energy conversion, electrochemical sensors, fuel cells, and batteries
This wide-ranging reference offers researchers, engineers, and engineering students a complete understanding of the preparation of high entropy alloys for modern and advancing applications.
About the author
Shashanka Rajendrachari is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Global Academy of Technology, Bengaluru, India. He was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Bartin University, Turkey. He earned a PhD at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. He is the first recipient of the prestigious Powder Metallurgy Student of the Year Award by the Powder Metallurgy Association of India for 2015 at IIT Bombay. He was awarded the prestigious Young Scientist 2020 Award at the Fourth International Scientist Awards ceremony on engineering, science, and medicine in Chennai, India. He is listed in the top 2% of scientists in the world for 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, as reported by Stanford University, USA, and published by Elsevier. He was awarded third place for the project competition in the Fifth R&D Project Market held in Turkey in 2022. He is experienced in preparing nano-structured stainless-steel powders, high entropy alloys, and shape memory alloys by the mechanical alloying method. He has more than eight years of research and teaching experience and has published more than 80 research articles, 1 German patent, 18 books and 15 book chapters in various peer-reviewed international publications. He has more than 3000 citations. His areas of research include powder metallurgy, mechanical alloying, nanomaterials, corrosion, electrochemical sensors, etc.
