Jien-Wei Yeh is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the

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, in

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. He is known for his contributions to the field of

high-entropy alloy High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are alloys that are formed by mixing equal or relatively large proportions of (usually) five or more elements. Prior to the synthesis of these substances, typical metal alloys comprised one or two major components with ...

. He has a Google H-index of 95 with over 54,921 citations and is named on 336 publications according to Research Gate.

Research on high-entropy alloys

Yeh first conceived the idea for high-entropy alloys in 1995. Yeh led his first research group on the subject in 2001 funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan. That research group published several papers in 2004 and a review in 2020. Notably, the early work was soon after

Brian Cantor Brian Cantor (born 11 January 1948) has been a long-serving Lists of university leaders, university leader, is a visiting professor in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, and a consultant at the Brunel Centre for Advanced Sol ...

released some of his foundational work.

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