Influence of chemical disorder on energy dissipation and defect evolution in concentrated solid solution alloys

Y Zhang, GM Stocks, K Jin, C Lu, H Bei… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
A grand challenge in materials research is to understand complex electronic correlation and
non-equilibrium atomic interactions, and how such intrinsic properties and dynamic …

Atomic-level heterogeneity and defect dynamics in concentrated solid-solution alloys

Y Zhang, S Zhao, WJ Weber, K Nordlund… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2017 - Elsevier
Performance enhancement of structural materials in extreme radiation environments has
been actively investigated for many decades. Traditional alloys, such as steel, brass and …

Influence of chemical disorder on energy dissipation and defect evolution in advanced alloys

Y Zhang, K Jin, H Xue, C Lu, RJ Olsen… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Historically, alloy development with better radiation performance has been focused on
traditional alloys with one or two principal element (s) and minor alloying elements, where …

Dissipation of radiation energy in concentrated solid-solution alloys: Unique defect properties and microstructural evolution

Y Zhang, T Egami, WJ Weber - Mrs Bulletin, 2019 - cambridge.org
The effort to develop metallic alloys with increased structural strength and improved
radiation performance has focused on the incorporation of either solute elements or …

Tunable chemical disorder in concentrated alloys: defect physics and radiation performance

Y Zhang, YN Osetsky, WJ Weber - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
The development of advanced structural alloys with performance meeting the requirements
of extreme environments in nuclear reactors has been long pursued. In the long history of …

Enhancing radiation tolerance by controlling defect mobility and migration pathways in multicomponent single-phase alloys

C Lu, L Niu, N Chen, K Jin, T Yang, P Xiu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A grand challenge in material science is to understand the correlation between intrinsic
properties and defect dynamics. Radiation tolerant materials are in great demand for safe …

Ion irradiation and modification: The role of coupled electronic and nuclear energy dissipation and subsequent nonequilibrium processes in materials

Y Zhang, WJ Weber - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Understanding material responses to energy deposition from energetic charged particles is
important for defect engineering, ion-beam processing, ion-beam analysis and modification …

Direct observation of defect range and evolution in ion-irradiated single crystalline Ni and Ni binary alloys

C Lu, K Jin, LK Béland, F Zhang, T Yang, L Qiao… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Energetic ions have been widely used to evaluate the irradiation tolerance of structural
materials for nuclear power applications and to modify material properties. It is important to …

Mechanism of radiation damage reduction in equiatomic multicomponent single phase alloys

F Granberg, K Nordlund, MW Ullah, K Jin, C Lu, H Bei… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Recently a new class of metal alloys, of single-phase multicomponent composition at
roughly equal atomic concentrations (“equiatomic”), have been shown to exhibit promising …

Local-environment dependence of stacking fault energies in concentrated solid-solution alloys

S Zhao, Y Osetsky, GM Stocks, Y Zhang - npj Computational Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Concentrated solid-solution alloys (CSAs) based on 3 d transition metals have
demonstrated extraordinary mechanical properties and radiation resistance associated with …