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Atomic disordering in materials alters their physical and chemical properties and can subsequently affect their performance. In complex ceramic materials, it is a challenge to understand the nature of structural disordering, due to the difficulty of direct, atomic-scale experimental observations. Here we report the direct imaging of ion irradiation-induced antisite defects in M n+1 AX n  phases using double C S -corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy and provide compelling evidence of order-to-disorder phase transformations, overturning the conventional view that irradiation causes phase decomposition to binary fcc-structured M n+1 X n . With the formation of uniformly distributed cation antisite defects and the rearrangement of X anions, disordered solid solution γ-(M n+1 A)X n  phases are formed at low ion fluences, followed by gradual transitions to solid solution fcc-structured (M n+1 A)X n  phases. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the order-to-disorder transformations in M n+1 AX n  phases and proposes a method for the synthesis of new solid solution (M n+1 A)X n  phases by tailoring the disorder.

Disorder in Mn+1AXn phases at the atomic scale