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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in nanomechanical and in situ testing techniques: Towards extreme conditions

D Kiener, M Wurmshuber, M Alfreider… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanoindentation based techniques were significantly enhanced by continuous stiffness
monitoring capabilities. In essence, this allowed to expand from point-wise discrete …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing heavy ions-irradiated Zr/Nb: Structure and mechanical properties

N Daghbouj, HS Sen, J Čížek, J Lorinčík, M Karlík… - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
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) …

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)) …

An in situ study on the effect of grain boundaries on helium bubble formation in dual beam irradiated FeCrAl alloy

T Sun, T Niu, Z Shang, WY Chen, M Li, H Wang… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
FeCrAl alloy is one of the promising cladding materials in the advanced nuclear reactors.
Here we compare the irradiation response of the nanolaminate (NL) and coarse-grained …

Microstructures and properties of high‐entropy materials: modeling, simulation, and experiments

J Li, Q Fang, PK Liaw - Advanced Engineering Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The performances of high‐entropy materials (HEMs), including high‐entropy alloys, high‐
entropy ceramics, and high‐entropy polymers, with unique characteristics (high mixing …

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 …

Helium implantation damage resistance in nanocrystalline W-Ta-V-Cr high entropy alloys

O El-Atwani, A Alvarado, K Unal, S Fensin… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Nanocrystalline W-Ta-Cr-V high entropy alloys have shown promising properties as
nuclear fusion materials with enhanced radiation resistance to heavy ion irradiation and …

Unprecedented irradiation resistance of nanocrystalline tungsten with equiaxed nanocrystalline grains to dislocation loop accumulation

O El-Atwani, E Esquivel, E Aydogan, E Martinez… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanocrystalline metals are often postulated as irradiation tolerant materials due to higher
grain boundary densities. The efficiency of these materials in mitigating irradiation damage …

Direct observation of sink-dependent defect evolution in nanocrystalline iron under irradiation

O El-Atwani, JE Nathaniel, AC Leff, K Hattar… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Crystal defects generated during irradiation can result in severe changes in morphology and
an overall degradation of mechanical properties in a given material. Nanomaterials have …