High-entropy alloys: A review of their performance as promising materials for hydrogen and molten salt storage

Abstract Fossil fuels have been the most employed energy source with a consistent and growing consumption; however, they will be replaced by renewable energy sources (RESs). Massively using this type of energy will require new materials, especially metallic-based materials, because the typical materials have shown poor performance. In particular, hydrogen obtained from RESs has technological concerns like absorption/desorption cycling, kinetics, and cost. Similarly, the solar industry demands highly corrosion-resistant materials at high temperatures. As mentioned above, these could be solved using high-entropy alloys (HEAs). HEAs are barely around 15 years old and have been intensively investigated to be used for wide technological and scientific applications due to their unusual mechanical, physical, and chemical properties. Thus, this study summarizes advances in HEAs as promising materials for hydrogen and energy molten salt storage technologies and discusses the corrosion performance of current HEAs, considering both the microstructure and constituent element effect.