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Entropy‐stabilized transition metal oxides ([MgNiCoCuZn]O) (ESO) in recent years have received considerable attention owing to their unique functional properties. Solution combustion and solid state syntheses resulted in crystallites varying from 5‐15 nm to 3‐5 μm respectively. Phase stability studies showed that all the systems containing Cu2+ ions in the ESO lattice segregated upon slow cooling in the furnace. It was only when ESO was quenched in air from 1000°C the lattice stabilized to a single phase. Experiments concomitant with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations demonstrated that the local stress fields around the cations played a critical role in stabilizing the single phase. The local stress fields are a result of Jahn‐Teller distortion induced by the Cu2+ ions in the lattice. It is clearly established that in the absence of the minimization of the local stress fields around the Cu2+ ions, segregation leading to the formation of a multi‐phase material is imminent for this particular composition.

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In this work, a novel stand-alone multi-axial loading test setup was developed to test miniature samples under uniaxial tension, uniaxial compression, in-plane biaxial tension, and biaxial compression stress states. Good agreement in stress–strain responses was observed between the uniaxial experiments carried out using the miniature sample geometry in the custom-built setup and the uniaxial standard geometry in a universal testing machine. With regard to biaxial experiments, the full-field strain captured using digital image correlation for the biaxial specimens revealed strain homogeneity in the central gage section of the sample. Furthermore, the in situ capability of the setup was demonstrated by integrating it with a commercial laboratory x-ray diffractometer, and good agreement was found between the calculated stress values from the load sensor and the stress obtained using x-ray diffraction.

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