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 …

Nanoscale metallic multilayers have been shown to have a wide range of outstanding
properties, which differ to a great extent from those observed in monolithic films. Their …

In this work, the radiation responses of Zr/Nb nanostructured metallic multilayers (NMMs) are
studied. The nanostructures with different layer thicknesses were deposited on Si (1 1 1) …

Nanoindentation is a critical technique to probe mechanical properties at the micrometer
and sub-micrometer scales, accompanied by challenges from indentation size effect, pile …

Tailoring interfaces is a powerful way of reducing the accumulation of radiation defects.
Understanding strain evolution induced by ion bombardment in nuclear materials with high …

Nanocrystalline (NC) metals are stronger and more radiation-tolerant than their coarse-
grained (CG) counterparts, but they often suffer from poor thermal stability as nanograins …

Helium (He) bubbles are typical radiation defects in structural materials in nuclear reactors
after high dose energetic particle irradiation. In the past decades, extensive studies have …

Ion irradiation offers a promising strategy to emulate the irradiation damage induced by
energetic neutrons. However, the characterization of the mechanical properties of ion …

Nanolayered metallic alloys are promising materials for nuclear applications thanks to their
resistance to radiation damage. Here, we investigate the effect of ion (C, Si, and Cu) …

Nanolayered metals are shown to have significantly improved radiation resistance, owing to
the copious interplay between their densely populated internal boundaries with irradiation …