There is an ever-increasing need for material systems to operate in the most extreme environments encountered in space exploration, energy production, and propulsion …
Numerous metallurgical and materials science applications depend on quantitative atomic- scale characterizations of environmentally-sensitive materials and their transient states …
Radiation effects in materials often compound and accelerate other detrimental phenomena such as embrittlement, oxidation and creep. However, irradiation can also decrease the …
Understanding the early stages of interactions between oxygen and material surfaces— especially at very high spatial resolutions—is highly beneficial for fields ranging from …
Perovskite structured transition metal oxides are important technological materials for catalysis and solid oxide fuel cell applications. Their functionality often depends on oxygen …
Precipitate strengthened high-temperature alloys are currently used in safety-critical applications. Understanding precipitate stability and solute segregation mechanisms at high …
A multimodal chemical imaging approach has been developed and applied to detail the dynamic, atomic-scale changes associated with oxidation of a zirconium alloy (Zircaloy-4) …
Element redistributions after initial oxidation of a Ni 38 Cr 22 Fe 20 Mn 10 Co 10 (at.%) multi- principle element alloy at 120° C and 300° C is captured via in situ atom probe tomography …
Compositional partitioning during uranium alloy oxidation was studied via complementary ex situ-in situ atom probe tomography. Nanoscopic volumes of uranium-22 at …