Behavior of tungsten under irradiation and plasma interaction

M Rieth, R Doerner, A Hasegawa, Y Ueda… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
In 1959 the Journal of Nuclear Materials (JNM) was founded and is now celebrating its
Diamond Anniversary year. The present paper is part of a series in which single JNM …

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 …

Enhanced resistance to helium irradiations through unusual interaction between high-entropy-alloy and helium

T Cheng, G Wei, S Jiang, J Zhang, Y Wang, P Liu… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Finding high performance plasma-facing materials (PFMs) is one of the most important and
challenging tasks for realizing the commercial application of fusion reactors. Herein, we …

Molecular dynamics simulation of primary radiation damage in W-Ta alloys: effect of tantalum

R Qiu, Y Chen, L Liu, Z Liu, N Gao, W Hu… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tungsten (W) and W-based alloys are competitive candidates for plasma-facing materials in
future fusion reactors. W-tantalum (Ta) alloys get the most attention amongst these materials …

In-situ TEM investigation of nano-scale helium bubble evolution in tantalum-doped tungsten at 800° C

I Ipatova, G Greaves, S Pacheco-Gutiérrez… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Elsevier
The aim of this work is to probe the helium-induced defect production and accumulation in
40 keV He+ irradiated polycrystalline W and its alternative alloy W-5wt.% Ta using …

Compositional effects of additively manufactured refractory high-entropy alloys under high-energy helium irradiation

E Lang, K Burns, Y Wang, PG Kotula, AB Kustas… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
High-Entropy Alloys (HEAs) are proposed as materials for a variety of extreme
environments, including both fission and fusion radiation applications. To withstand these …

Behavior of high-entropy W-rich alloys Wx (TaVCrTi) y under He+ irradiation

H Cui, N Liu, L Luo, Y Xu, J Cheng, Y Wu - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2021 - Elsevier
A group of high-entropy W-rich (HE-W) alloys were investigated as potential divertor
materials in this study. Pure W and four HE-W alloys: W 90 (TaVCrTi) 10, W 80 (TaVCrTi) 20 …

Development of the interatomic potentials for W-Ta system

Y Chen, J Fang, L Liu, W Hu, N Gao, F Gao… - Computational Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tungsten (W) and W-based alloys are regarded as the most promising candidates for
plasma facing materials (PFMs) in future fusion reactors. In this work, new interatomic …

Enhanced plasticity in a Zr-rich refractory high-entropy alloy via electron irradiation

J Hao, Y Zhang, Q Wang, Y Ma, L Sun… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) possess remarkable high-temperature mechanical
properties and have significant potential for use in nuclear fission reactors. However, the …

Study on the microstructural evolution in NbMoTaW series refractory multi-principal element alloy films by low-energy and high-flux He ions irradiation

Y Guo, P Zhang, X Zhang, Y Cui, X Mei, X Li… - Surface and Coatings …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the nanocrystalline NbMoTaW and NbMoTaWV refractory multi-principal
element alloy (RMPEA) films were selected for the research of low-energy (50 eV), high-flux …