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High-entropy alloys have attracted great attention in various fields due to their high-entropy effect, severe lattice distortion, slow diffusion and special and excellent material performance due to the combination of various alloying elements in equal or near-equal molar proportions. Its high strength and hardness, fatigue resistance, excellent corrosion resistance, radiation resistance, near-zero thermal expansion coefficient, catalytic response, thermoelectric response and photoelectric conversion make high-entropy alloys have potential applications in many aspects. High-throughput computation and machine learning technology have rapidly become powerful tools to explore the huge composition space of high-entropy alloys and comprehensively predict material properties. The basic concepts of high-throughput computing and machine learning were introduced in this paper as well as the advantages of first-principles calculation, thermodynamic/kinetic calculation and machine learning in the research of high-entropy alloys. The application research status of high-entropy alloy composition screening, phase and microstructure calculations and performance prediction were summarized. In the final part, the existing problems, and the solutions and future prospects of this field were summarized, including developing tools for first-principles calculations and machine learning of high-entropy alloys, building high-quality databases for high-entropy alloys and integrating high-throughput computing with machine learning to globally optimize the mechanical property and service performance of high-entropy alloys.

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of seeding date and variety type on yield, growth period and utilization of temperature and sunshine under the rice-wheat cropping system in different ecological regions of Henan Province. Taking conventional medium-maturing medium Japonica rice variety, conventional and hybrid late-maturing medium Japonica rice varieties, conventional early-maturing late Japonica rice variety and hybrid late-maturing medium indica rice variety as experimental materials, high-yield cultivation method of mechanization planting of carpet seedlings was used in three different sites, i.e. Luoshan rice-growing district along the Huai River in,southern Henan Province, Xincai in central Henan Province and Yuanyang rice-growing district along the Yellow River in northern Henan Province. The effects of different seeding dates on yield, growth period and utilization of temperature and sunshine of mechanized planting rice were comparatively analyzed. Within the set range of seeding date in the experiment, except that the yields of conventional medium-maturing medium Japonica rice variety were highest for Luoshan and Xincai in the second sowing period (On May 16) and for Yuanyang in the first sowing period (On May 11), the yields of conventional and hybrid late-maturing medium Japonica rice varieties, conventional early-maturing late Japonica rice variety and hybrid late-maturing medium indica rice variety were all highest in the first seeding period (On May 11) for every site, and it showed a trend of gradual decline along with the seeding date delaying(P<0.01), but significance differences were all different among different variety types and sites. With the delaying of seeding date, yield differences among variety types gradually increased in the same site(P<0.01), of which grain yield of hybrid late-maturing medium Japonica rice variety was the highest in every site, and was significantly higher than other variety types in each period. With the delaying of seeding date, the periods of jointing, heading and maturity of all varieties were correspondingly delayed, and whole growth period, and its accumulated temperature, sunshine hours and utilization rate of TPS all showed a significant decreasing trend (P<0.01). And the reduction of growth period along with the delaying of seeding date, was mainly in vegetative growth phase, i.e. from seeding to jointing stages. Therefore, under the condition of rice-wheat cropping system with mechanical planting in Henan Province, the preferred variety that was firstly chosen should be hybird and conventional late-maturing medium Japonica rice varieties in southern Henan, and the variety that was secondly chosen should be conventional early-maturing late Japonica rice variety, and their suitable seeding dates were all from May 11 to May 25. In the northern Henan, the preferred varieties should be the conventional late-maturing medium Japonica rice variety and medium-maturing medium Japonica rice variety, followed by conventional late-maturing medium Japonica rice variety, and their suitable seeding dates were all from May 11 to May 21. The result will provide a reference for the scientific division and the distribution of different rice variety types under mechanical high-yield cultivation and the choosing of its possible seeding date in different ecological areas in Henan Province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]