High entropy or just complex?

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Several elements mixed in a single crystal phase isn’t necessarily a high entropy material

Almost 20 years have passed since Jien-Wei Yeh and Brian Cantor first – but separately – reported how they had combined equimolar (or near-equimolar) concentrations of multiple different metal elements to make single-phase alloys. Before then, both had spent years developing what we now call high entropy alloys completely unaware of the other, yet those initial papers appeared just months apart.