A review of solute-point defect interactions in vanadium and its alloys: first-principles modeling and simulation

PB Zhang, JJ Zhao, TT Zou, RH Li, PF Zheng, JM Chen - Tungsten, 2021 - Springer
Vanadium alloys are the promising first wall and blanket materials for fusion reactors. Large
amounts of helium (He) and hydrogen (H) impurities are produced inside the materials …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of Ti/Y/O on He clustering at a vacancy in vanadium from first-principles calculations

X Wang, M Wei, H Ji, G Li, Y Wang, P Zhang - Nuclear Materials and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Effect of Ti/Y/O element on helium (He) clustering in vacancy (Vac) defect of
vanadium (V) alloy were investigated using first-principles calculations. We first calculated …

Plasticity improvement and radiation hardening reduction of Y doped V-4Cr-4Ti alloy

Y Zhang, R Li, S Diao, F Wan, Q Zhan - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
In current work, V-4Cr-4Ti and V-4Cr-4Ti-2Y alloys are prepared using mechanical alloying
and spark plasma sintering. Sequential-beam irradiation of 30 keV H+ and 50 keV He+ ions …

Investigation of the Y effect on the microstructure response and radiation hardening of PM V-4Cr-4Ti alloys after irradiation with D ions

Y Zhang, X Sun, B Ma, J Wang, L Luo, Y Wu - Metals, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the current work, an analysis of the effects of Y on the radiation hardening and
microstructure response of a V-4Cr-4Ti alloy has been conducted after 30 keV D ion …

First-principles study of substitutional solute and carbon interactions in tungsten

XS Kong, C Song, L Chen, ZM Xie, CS Liu, J Hou - Tungsten, 2022 - Springer
Interstitial carbon and substitutional transition metal (TM) solutes are common impurities in
tungsten and tungsten alloys. Yet, despite its important role in affecting mechanical and …

Migration mechanisms of mono-/di-interstitials in vanadium with alloying Ti/Cr

M Wei, P Zhang, H Ji, G Li, G Wang, Y Wang… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2025 - Elsevier
Self-interstitial atoms (SIAs) are the dominant self-defects at equilibrium in metals, but many
questions such as their diffusion characteristics are still open, and studies of the Ti/Cr effect …

Towards understanding the mechanism of titanium suppressing vacancy clustering/void nucleation in vanadium alloy

M Wei, P Zhang, X Wang, G Li, H Ji, G Wang… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
The energetics and dynamics of vacancy/vacancy n (Vac n) clusters in presence of Ti in
vanadium alloy were systemically investigated by first-principles calculations to elucidate the …

Investigation of the interstitial oxygen behaviors in vanadium alloy: A first-principles study

X Zhang, Y Li, Q He, R Li, L Deng, L Wang, X Liu… - Current Applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study aims at characterizing the interstitial Oxygen (O) behaviors in the Vanadium (V)
Alloy by means of the first-principles calculations. For this, the interations between vacancy …

The trapping effect of transitional metals on oxygen in Mo from first-principles calculations

C Pan, J Cao, X He, D Wang, Y Dou, H Zhao… - Computational Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
The trapping effect of solute on oxygen (O) can be benefit for inhibiting its segregation and
embrittlement at the GBs in Mo alloys. In this work, the interaction between solutes (including …

[HTML][HTML] Interaction between helium and transition metals in vanadium: A first-principles investigation

P Zhang, X Wang, M Wei, Y Wang, T Zou - Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
We systemically investigated helium (He) interacting with 27 substitutional solute elements
in vanadium by first-principles calculations. The interactions between early three 3d/4d/5d …