High entropy alloys (HEAs) are being attracted recently by several researchers, scientists, and academicians to achieve extraordinary and outstanding properties that cannot be obtained from conventional alloys. HEAs are multicomponent alloys in which a minimum of five metallic elements are mixed in an equal molar or non-equal molar ratio. The rapid growth of this field produces a huge amount of scientific papers over the last decade. However, still, there is a need to review various manufacturing methods and their results. Also, the outcome of the scientific articles related to HEAs has ignored the various methods of synthesizing and manufacturing. In this review article, an attempt was made and largely concentrated on the methods and techniques that can be used in the manufacturing and synthesizing of the HEAs. Recently, the properties of HEAs become much better when compared to conventional alloys. Some techniques have succeeded in producing ultrafine microstructure grains which become a leap in industrial fields. Now, the manufacturing methods of conventional alloys are almost familiar and implemented according to the suggestions given by the researchers and academicians based on their work. Therefore, the present review article has demonstrated various methods of manufacturing of HEAs with novel schematics with a preview description for more understanding of the basic work criteria. Besides, this article has reviewed the outcomes of several research articles related to several methods, then compared the outcome of each method with the corresponding mechanical properties, and major challenges of HEAs are discussed and reported.

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In this research work, the nanostructured Fe-Mn (BM0), Fe-Mn-Cu (BM1), Fe-Mn-W (BM2), and Fe-Mn-Co (BM3) biodegradable alloys were successfully synthesized using mechanical alloying. The microstructure of the synthesized alloys was examined using XRD, SEM equipped with EDS, and HRTEM techniques. The results obtained based on these techniques confirmed the development of nanostructured BM0, BM1, BM2, and BM3 alloys and homogenous solid solutions with an even elemental dispersion. The compressibility of the synthesized alloys was investigated experimentally and empirically in the as-milled conditions and after applying a stress relief treatment (150 °C for 1 h). The load applied for compaction experiments ranged from 25–1100 MPa with a rate of 1 mm/min. According to the experimentation performed in the current study, the relative density of the as-milled BM0, BM1, BM2, and BM3 alloys was 72.90% and 71.64%, 72.32%, and 72.03%, respectively. After applying the stress relief treatment, the density was observed to increase to 75.23%, 77.10%, 72.65%, and 72.86% for BM0-S, BM1-S, BM2-S and BM3-S samples, respectively. A number of compaction models were tested to identify the optimum models for predicting the compressibility behavior of nanostructured Fe-Mn, Fe-Mn-Cu, Fe-Mn-W, and Fe-Mn-Co alloys in the as-milled and stress-relieved conditions.

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