Primary radiation damage: A review of current understanding and models

K Nordlund, SJ Zinkle, AE Sand, F Granberg… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
Scientific understanding of any kind of radiation effects starts from the primary damage, ie
the defects that are produced right after an initial atomic displacement event initiated by a …

Accelerated molecular dynamics methods: introduction and recent developments

D Perez, BP Uberuaga, Y Shim, JG Amar… - Annual Reports in …, 2009 - Elsevier
Because of its unrivaled predictive power, the molecular dynamics (MD) method is widely
used in theoretical chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, and engineering …

A fast and robust algorithm for Bader decomposition of charge density

G Henkelman, A Arnaldsson, H Jónsson - Computational Materials Science, 2006 - Elsevier
An algorithm is presented for carrying out decomposition of electronic charge density into
atomic contributions. As suggested by Bader [R. Bader, Atoms in Molecules: A Quantum …

The relationship between grain boundary structure, defect mobility and grain boundary sink efficiency

BP Uberuaga, LJ Vernon, E Martinez, AF Voter - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Nanocrystalline materials have received great attention due to their potential for improved
functionality and have been proposed for extreme environments where the interfaces are …

Distinctive features of diffusion-controlled radiation defect recombination in stoichiometric magnesium aluminate spinel single crystals and transparent polycrystalline …

A Lushchik, E Feldbach, EA Kotomin, I Kudryavtseva… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
MgAl2O4 spinel is important optical material for harsh radiation environment and other
important applications. The kinetics of thermal annealing of the basic electron (F, F+) and …

Radiation tolerance of nanocrystalline ceramics: insights from yttria stabilized zirconia

S Dey, JW Drazin, Y Wang, JA Valdez, TG Holesinger… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Materials for applications in hostile environments, such as nuclear reactors or radioactive
waste immobilization, require extremely high resistance to radiation damage, such as …

Radiation tolerance in a nanostructure: Is smaller better?

TD Shen - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research …, 2008 - Elsevier
While previous experimental studies suggest that the presence of nanostructure is
detrimental to the phase-transition resistance under an irradiation environment, we have …

The parallel replica dynamics method–Coming of age

D Perez, BP Uberuaga, AF Voter - Computational Materials Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD)–the numerical integration of atomistic equations of motion–is a
workhorse of computational materials science. Indeed, MD can in principle be used to obtain …

Intrinsic Conductivity in Magnesium–Oxygen Battery Discharge Products: MgO and MgO2

JG Smith, J Naruse, H Hiramatsu… - Chemistry of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Nonaqueous magnesium–oxygen (or “Mg-air”) batteries are attractive next generation
energy storage devices due to their high theoretical energy densities, projected low cost …

Primary Radiation Damage in Materials. Review of Current Understanding and Proposed New Standard Displacement Damage Model to Incorporate in Cascade …

K Nordlund, AE Sand, F Granberg, SJ Zinkle, R Stoller… - 2015 - inis.iaea.org
Executive summary One of the consequences of the interaction of high energy particles
(photons, neutrons, ions or electrons) with crystalline materials is the formation of lattice …