High-entropy alloys for advanced nuclear applications

EJ Pickering, AW Carruthers, PJ Barron… - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
The expanded compositional freedom afforded by high-entropy alloys (HEAs) represents a
unique opportunity for the design of alloys for advanced nuclear applications, in particular …

Materials for future nuclear energy systems

GS Was, D Petti, S Ukai, S Zinkle - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Materials for future nuclear energy systems must operate under more extreme conditions
than those in current Gen II or Gen III systems. These conditions include higher temperature …

Materials challenges in nuclear energy

SJ Zinkle, GS Was - Acta Materialia, 2013 - Elsevier
Nuclear power currently provides about 13% of electrical power worldwide, and has
emerged as a reliable baseload source of electricity. A number of materials challenges must …

Machine learning in nuclear materials research

D Morgan, G Pilania, A Couet, BP Uberuaga… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nuclear materials are often demanded to function for extended time in extreme
environments, including high radiation fluxes with associated transmutations, high …

[HTML][HTML] Structural materials for fission & fusion energy

SJ Zinkle, JT Busby - Materials today, 2009 - Elsevier
Structural materials represent the key for containment of nuclear fuel and fission products as
well as reliable and thermodynamically efficient production of electrical energy from nuclear …

Design of radiation tolerant materials via interface engineering

W Han, MJ Demkowicz, NA Mara, E Fu, S Sinha… - 2013 - dspace.mit.edu
A novel interface engineering strategy is proposed to simultaneously achieve superior
irradiation tolerance, high strength, and high thermal stability in bulk nanolayered …

Irradiation Resistance in Al x CoCrFeNi High Entropy Alloys

SQ Xia, X Yang, TF Yang, S Liu, Y Zhang - Jom, 2015 - Springer
The irradiation behavior of Al x CoCrFeNi (x= 0.1, 0.75, and 1.5) high entropy alloys was
studied under 3 MeV Au-ions irradiation. The microstructural change and volume swelling …

Effect of grain boundary character on sink efficiency

WZ Han, MJ Demkowicz, EG Fu, YQ Wang, A Misra - Acta materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
The dependence of the width of void-denuded zones (VDZs) on grain boundary (GB)
characters was investigated in Cu irradiated with He ions at elevated temperature …

Challenges to the use of ion irradiation for emulating reactor irradiation

GS Was - Journal of Materials Research, 2015 - cambridge.org
Development of new materials for current and advanced reactor concepts is hampered by
long lead times and high cost of reactor irradiations coupled with the paucity of test reactors …

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 …