The special quasi-random structures model was invented to simulate these systems as periodic supercells. In 2004, Cantor and Yeh simultaneously proposed increasing the complexity of these systems to stabilize their topologically-close-packed sigma and Laves phases. Larry Kaufman invented CALPHAD to predict these systems’ phase diagrams. A class of these materials is named for the high configurational entropy afforded by five equimolar atoms. (*) Quasicrystals were discovered in one of these materials. Like polymers, these materials exhibit superelasticity and a shape memory effect caused by microstructure twinning. Atoms in these materials must match valence, electronegativity, and radii to ensure all their electrons are delocalized throughout a solid solution. For 10 points, name these mixtures of metals. ■END■
ANSWER: alloys [accept intermetallic compounds or intermetallics; accept Cantor alloys or high-entropy alloys or refractory alloys or HEAs or RHEAs; accept solid solutions or interstitial solid solutions or substitutional solid solutions until it is read; prompt on crystals or solutions; reject “metals”]
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