Radiation damage in nanostructured materials

X Zhang, K Hattar, Y Chen, L Shao, J Li, C Sun… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Materials subjected to high dose irradiation by energetic particles often experience severe
damage in the form of drastic increase of defect density, and significant degradation of their …

Recent progresses on designing and manufacturing of bulk refractory alloys with high performances based on controlling interfaces

T Zhang, HW Deng, ZM Xie, R Liu, JF Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Refractory alloys such as tungsten and molybdenum based alloys with high strength,
thermal/electrical conductivity, low coefficient of thermal expansion and excellent creep …

A quinary WTaCrVHf nanocrystalline refractory high-entropy alloy withholding extreme irradiation environments

O El Atwani, HT Vo, MA Tunes, C Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In the quest of new materials that can withstand severe irradiation and mechanical extremes
for advanced applications (eg. fission & fusion reactors, space applications, etc.), design …

High temperature annealing of ion irradiated tungsten

F Ferroni, X Yi, K Arakawa, SP Fitzgerald… - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Transmission electron microscopy of high temperature annealing of pure tungsten irradiated
by self-ions was conducted to elucidate microstructural and defect evolution in temperature …

Helium, hydrogen, and fuzz in plasma-facing materials

KD Hammond - Materials Research Express, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Tungsten, the primary material under consideration as the divertor material in magnetic-
confinement nuclear fusion reactors, has been known for the last decade to form'fuzz'—a …

Loop and void damage during heavy ion irradiation on nanocrystalline and coarse grained tungsten: Microstructure, effect of dpa rate, temperature, and grain size

O El-Atwani, E Esquivel, M Efe, E Aydogan, YQ Wang… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Displacement damage, through heavy ion irradiation was studied on two tungsten grades
(coarse grained tungsten (CGW) and nanocrystalline and ultrafine grained tungsten (NCW)) …

Helium bubble formation in ultrafine and nanocrystalline tungsten under different extreme conditions

O El-Atwani, K Hattar, JA Hinks, G Greaves… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
We have investigated the effects of helium ion irradiation energy and sample temperature on
the performance of grain boundaries as helium sinks in ultrafine grained and nanocrystalline …

A comparative study on the in situ helium irradiation behavior of tungsten: Coarse grain vs. nanocrystalline grain

Z Chen, LL Niu, Z Wang, L Tian, L Kecskes, K Zhu… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Increasing the density of sinks such as grain boundaries and interfaces for irradiation-
induced defects and implanted ions has been demonstrated to be an effective way to …

Chemical short-range order in derivative Cr–Ta–Ti–V–W high entropy alloys from the first-principles thermodynamic study

D Sobieraj, JS Wróbel, T Rygier… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) focuses on exploring compositional regions
in multi-component systems with all alloy elements in equal or near-equal atomic …

Grain size threshold for enhanced irradiation resistance in nanocrystalline and ultrafine tungsten

O El-Atwani, JA Hinks, G Greaves… - Materials Research …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Nanocrystalline metals are considered highly radiation-resistant materials due to their large
grain boundary areas. Here, the existence of a grain size threshold for enhanced irradiation …