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Quantifying the atomic neighbourhoods in complex concentrated alloys

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Atom probe tomography unlocks the potential to precisely analyse the short-range ordering in a CoCrNi medium-entropy alloy.

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Fig. 1: Analysing SRO in CoCrNi alloy using APT.
Fig. 2: Quantification of the SRO parameter.

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