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Record W4413311816 · doi:10.1039/d5nr02183a

Synthesis of high-entropy alloys for electrocatalysis

2025· review· en· W4413311816 on OpenAlexafffund
Alexander Li, Vivek Maheshwari

Bibliographic record

VenueNanoscale · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdvanced Materials Characterization Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of WaterlooCanada Foundation for Innovation
KeywordsElectrocatalystHigh entropy alloysMaterials scienceEntropy (arrow of time)Statistical physicsNanotechnologyChemistryThermodynamicsMetallurgyPhysical chemistryPhysicsAlloyElectrochemistryElectrode

Abstract

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High entropy alloys have garnered significant research interest in the field of electrochemistry in recent years due to their unique catalytic properties. These materials, characterized by a multi-principal element composition, have demonstrated superior catalytic performance and enhanced stability compared to traditional catalysts. However, the inherent complexity of high entropy alloys poses significant challenges, particularly in two key areas. First, this complexity makes studying and fully understanding the material's properties and behavior difficult. Second, the synthesis of nanoscale high entropy alloys is often complex, costly, and differs substantially from their bulk counterparts. This review begins by discussing the core principles that govern the unique characteristics of high entropy alloys. The central portion of the review focuses on the latest methodologies for synthesizing nanoscale high entropy alloys and briefly tabulates the catalytic performance of these materials. In the concluding section, we examine the recent studies on the formation mechanisms of high entropy alloy nanoparticles, with a particular focus on wet-chemistry synthesis methods conducted under mild conditions. We hope this review will help researchers better understand high entropy alloys and high entropy alloy synthesis methods for electrocatalysis.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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