Infrared radiation and thermal cyclic performance of a high-entropy rare-earth hexaaluminate coating prepared by atmospheric plasma spraying.

In this study, a high-entropy RMgAl 11 O 19 (HE-RMA, R = La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd) and LaMgAl 11 O 19 (LMA) coatings were fabricated by atmospheric plasma spraying. The phase composition, microstructure, thermal stability, infrared emissivity performance and shock resistance were comparatively characterized. The results showed that doping multiple rare-earth cations could be conductive to enhance the infrared emissivity. The as-sprayed HE-RMA coating exhibited the highest infrared emissivity, which reached up to 0.971 at 1000 °C. The reason for the improvement of the infrared emissivity was attributed to introduced impurity energy level resulting from doping cations, which could reduce the forbidden bandwidth and increase probability of electronic transition. Meanwhile, HE-RMA coating exhibited better shock resistance at 1100 °C due to superior fracture toughness (1.84 ± 0.41 MPa·m1/2) during thermal cycling test at 1100 °C. In addition, HE-RMA coating still exhibited high infrared emissivity (0.932 at 1000 °C) at 1100 °C annealing for 100 h with only a slight reduction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]