EXTENDED ABSTRACT: The emergence of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and large language models has signiffcantly enhanced the potential of machine learning and AI in the ffeld of materials design. For example, the success of AlphaFold in protein structure prediction has demonstrated the powerful capabilities of generative AI in uncovering complex relationships between material composition, structure, and performance. However, the challenges in alloy design are even more daunting, with a broader compositional space, more complex synthesis processes, and deeper intrinsic mechanisms. Coupled with the smaller experimental datasets, the application of AI in this ffeld is even more challenging. Applying cutting-edge AI technologies to alloy design can signiffcantly improve design efficiency, shorten experimental cycles, and reveal underlying mechanisms, which is a major challenge we face. This report briefly discusses the application of machine learning and AI in the design of high-entropy alloys and high-temperature alloys, showcasing how we efficiently developed near-zero thermal expansion high-entropy Invar alloys and optimized heat treatment parameters for high-temperature alloys using machine learning.
Keywords: Artiffcial Intelligence ;Alloy design;high-entropy alloys;high-temperature alloys
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[1] Rao Z, Tung P Y, Xie R, et al. Machine learning–enabled high-entropy alloy discovery. Science, 2022, 378(6615): 78-85.
Ziyuan Rao, Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, recipient of the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas) project. He holds a PhD from RWTH Aachen University in Germany and has served as a postdoctoral researcher and group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Germany. In July 2024, he returned to China to join the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has long been engaged in AI-based materials science research and has made a series of important contributions in cutting-edge ffelds such as and high-entropy alloys in recent years. He has published over 30 papers in journals such as Science.