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SUMMARY:Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys - Prof Brian Cantor
DTSTART:20250128T180000Z
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CONTACT:Zhang Xianghao Jeffrey
DESCRIPTION:All human advances have depended on making new materials\, and
  all materials are alloys\, i.e. mixtures of several different starting ma
 terials or components.  So the history of the human race has been the cont
 inued invention of new materials by discovering new alloys.  Recently a ne
 w way of doing this\, by manufacturing multicomponent high-entropy alloys\
 , has shown that the total number of possible materials is enormous\, even
  more than the number of atoms in the galaxy.  The vast majority of these 
 new materials have never been thought of\, let alone made\, so we have lot
 s of wonderful new materials yet to find.  The first group of these new ma
 terials that was discovered are called Cantor alloys\, an enormous range o
 f millions of materials all with an incredibly simple face-centred cubic s
 tructure\, based loosely on the original equiatomic five-component Cantor 
 alloy CrMnFeCoNi.  This talk will discuss briefly the previous history of 
 alloying\, the discovery of multicomponent alloys\, the structure of multi
 component phase space\, the complexity of local atomic and nanoscale confi
 gurations in such materials\, the effect of this on some fundamental prope
 rties such as electronic and atomic motion (conductivity and diffusivity)\
 , and the resulting outstanding properties and potential applications\, in
 cluding at low and high temperatures\, for corrosion and radiation resista
 nce\, and to enhance recycling and re-use.  \n\nBrian Cantor is an Emeritu
 s Professor in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford\, a
  Research Professor in the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Techn
 ology at Brunel University\, a Trustee of the UK’s National Science Muse
 um Group\, Co-Director of the UKRI Interdisciplinary Research Centre for C
 ircular Metals\, and a Chief Editor of the Springer-Nature research journa
 l High Entropy Alloys and Materials.  He was previously Vice-Chancellor of
  the University of York and Bradford University\, Head of Mathematical and
  Physical Sciences at the University of Oxford\, and a research scientist 
 and engineer at General Electric Research Labs in the USA\; he also worked
  briefly at Banaras Hindu University\, Washington State\, Northeastern\, I
 ISc Bangalore and the Kobe Institute.  He founded and built up the World T
 echnology Universities Network\, the UK National Science Learning Centre\,
  the Hull-York Medical School\, Oxford’s Begbroke Science Park\, and the
  York Heslington East campus.  He was a long-standing consultant for Alcan
 \, NASA and Rolls-Royce\, and editor of Progress in Materials Science.  He
  invented the new field of multicomponent high-entropy alloys and discover
 ed the so-called Cantor alloys.  Among many honours and prizes from differ
 ent countries around the world\, he is a Commander of the British Empire (
 CBE)\, a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and a Fellow of the Royal Acade
 my of Engineering (FREng).\n\nTalks are priced at £4 for non-Scientific S
 ociety members. Scientific Society members will have free access to all ou
 r talks. Lifetime membership costs £15 and gives free access to all talks
 \, members-only events and priority access to oversubscribed SciSoc events
 .
LOCATION:Pfizer Lecture Theatre\,  Department of Chemistry\, Lensfield Roa
 d
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