@conference{
author = "Zagorac, Dejan and Cvijović-Alagić, Ivana and Zagorac, Jelena and Butulija, Svetlana and Erčić, Jelena and Hanzel, Ondrej and Sedlak, Richard and Lisnichuk, Maksym and Škundrić, Tamara and Pejić, Milan and Jovanović, Dušica and Tatarko, Peter and Matović, Branko",
year = "2022",
abstract = "High-Entropy Alloys (HEAs) have attracted considerable interest due to the combination of useful properties and enhanced applications, and a few HEAs have already been shown to possess exceptional properties under extreme conditions (e.g. Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic (UHTC)). However, predicting the formation, structures, and stability of HEAs is one of the major goals of recent studies, which is expected to bring discovery of new systems with enhanced properties of the material, with special attention on high temperature and mechanical load. Here, we show an example of high-entropy rare-earth (RE) zirconates with a pyrochlore structure that was examined theoretically and experimentally observed. Theoretical methods were applied to investigate the variable composition of the ordered and disordered pyrochlore structures using quantum mechanics, group action theory, PCAE, and supercell methods. The investigated RE2Zr2O7 compound was successfully fabricated by pressureless and spark plasma sintering. with nominal composition (La0.2Y0.2Gd0.2Nd0.2Sm0.2)Zr2O7, prepared by simple glycine nitrate procedure (GNP) and characterized using various experimental methods (XRD, SEM, TEM, Raman, etc.). [1] Pyrochlore structures were generated using the Primitive Cell Approach for Atom Exchange (PCAE) method [2] or the supercell approach using the Crystal17 program package [3], and investigation of disordered systems and solid solutions was conducted using the group action theory [4]. Structural optimization on the ab initio level was performed using the Crystal17 code, based on a Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals (LCAO). Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were utilized in the present study, using the local density approximation (LDA) with Perdew–Zunger (PZ) correlation functional.",
publisher = "Belgrade : Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences - National Institute of thе Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade : Serbian Society for Innovative Materials in Extreme Conditions (SIM-EXTREME)",
journal = "IMEC 2022 : 1st Intentational conference on innovativ materials in extreme conditions : Program and Book of abstracts",
title = "DFT study of structural stability and mechanical properties: High-Entropy Alloys (HEAs) - Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics (UHTC)",
pages = "43",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_vinar_11329"
}
