Designing radiation resistance in materials for fusion energy

SJ Zinkle, LL Snead - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Proposed fusion and advanced (Generation IV) fission energy systems require high-
performance materials capable of satisfactory operation up to neutron damage levels …

The role of interface structure in controlling high helium concentrations

MJ Demkowicz, A Misra, A Caro - Current opinion in solid state and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Interfaces are good traps for implanted He, but are also susceptible to He-induced
embrittlement. Better understanding of the mechanisms of He interactions with interfaces …

Probing grain boundary sink strength at the nanoscale: Energetics and length scales of vacancy and interstitial absorption by grain boundaries in -Fe

MA Tschopp, KN Solanki, F Gao, X Sun, MA Khaleel… - Physical Review B, 2012 - APS
The energetics and length scales associated with the interaction between point defects
(vacancies and self-interstitial atoms) and grain boundaries in bcc Fe was explored …

Phase stability and microstructures of high entropy alloys ion irradiated to high doses

S Xia, MC Gao, T Yang, PK Liaw, Y Zhang - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2016 - Elsevier
The microstructures of Al x CoCrFeNi (x= 0.1, 0.75 and 1.5 in molar ratio) high entropy alloys
(HEAs) irradiated at room temperature with 3 MeV Au ions at the highest fluence of 105, 91 …

Radiation-induced solute segregation in metallic alloys

AJ Ardell, P Bellon - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The subject of radiation-induced solute segregation (RIS) in metallic alloys is reviewed. RIS
manifests itself in several different ways, including diffusion to point-defect sinks …

effect of bimetal interface structure on the mechanical behavior of Cu–Nb fcc–bcc nanolayered composites

NA Mara, IJ Beyerlein - Journal of materials science, 2014 - Springer
This article reviews the growing body of work over the past decade investigating the effect of
interface crystallographic character and resulting local interface structure on the mechanical …

Structure, shear resistance and interaction with point defects of interfaces in Cu–Nb nanocomposites synthesized by severe plastic deformation

MJ Demkowicz, L Thilly - Acta materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
Atomistic modeling is used to investigate the shear resistance and interaction with point
defects of a Cu–Nb interface found in nanocomposites synthesized by severe plastic …

Thermal stability and irradiation response of nanocrystalline CoCrCuFeNi high-entropy alloy

Y Zhang, MA Tunes, ML Crespillo, F Zhang… - …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Grain growth and phase stability of a nanocrystalline face-centered cubic (fcc) Ni 0.2 Fe 0.2
Co 0.2 Cr 0.2 Cu 0.2 high-entropy alloy (HEA), either thermally-or irradiation-induced, are …

Non-random walk diffusion enhances the sink strength of semicoherent interfaces

A Vattré, T Jourdan, H Ding, MC Marinica… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Clean, safe and economical nuclear energy requires new materials capable of withstanding
severe radiation damage. One strategy of imparting radiation resistance to solids is to …

The heterophase interface character distribution of physical vapor-deposited and accumulative roll-bonded Cu–Nb multilayer composites

SB Lee, JE LeDonne, SCV Lim, IJ Beyerlein, AD Rollett - Acta materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
We present a method for characterizing the full five parameter heterophase interface
character distributions (HICD) using two-dimensional electron back-scatter diffraction …