Atom probe tomography

B Gault, A Chiaramonti, O Cojocaru-Mirédin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Atom probe tomography (APT) provides three-dimensional compositional mapping with sub-
nanometre resolution. The sensitivity of APT is in the range of parts per million for all …

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 …

Microstructural stability and mechanical behavior of FeNiMnCr high entropy alloy under ion irradiation

NAPK Kumar, C Li, KJ Leonard, H Bei, SJ Zinkle - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent years, high entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted significant attention due to their
excellent mechanical properties and good corrosion resistance, making them potential …

The effect of interstitial carbon atoms on defect evolution in high entropy alloys under helium irradiation

Z Su, T Shi, J Yang, H Shen, Z Li, S Wang, G Ran, C Lu - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a design strategy based on a typical multi-principal element alloy (Fe 50 Mn 30
Co 10 Cr 10, at.%) was proposed to tune the irradiation behavior by adding interstitial …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] 1.03-Radiation-Induced effects on microstructure

SJ Zinkle - Comprehensive nuclear materials, 2012 - researchgate.net
Irradiation of materials with particles that are sufficiently energetic to create atomic
displacements can induce significant microstructural alteration, ranging from crystalline-to …

Solute diffusion by self-interstitial defects and radiation-induced segregation in ferritic Fe–X (X= Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, P, Si) dilute alloys

L Messina, T Schuler, M Nastar, MC Marinica, P Olsson - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
This work investigates solute transport due to self-interstitial defects and radiation induced
segregation tendencies in dilute ferritic alloys, by computing the transport coefficients of …

Mechanisms of radiation-induced segregation in CrFeCoNi-based single-phase concentrated solid solution alloys

MR He, S Wang, S Shi, K Jin, H Bei, K Yasuda… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Single-phase concentrated solid solution alloys have attracted wide interest due to their
superior mechanical properties and enhanced radiation tolerance, which make them …

Proton irradiation-decelerated intergranular corrosion of Ni-Cr alloys in molten salt

W Zhou, Y Yang, G Zheng, KB Woller… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The effects of ionizing radiation on materials often reduce to “bad news”. Radiation damage
usually leads to detrimental effects such as embrittlement, accelerated creep, phase …

Radiation-induced segregation in a ceramic

X Wang, H Zhang, T Baba, H Jiang, C Liu, Y Guan… - Nature Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Radiation-induced segregation is well known in metals, but has been rarely studied in
ceramics. We discover that radiation can induce notable segregation of one of the …