A review of surface damage/microstructures and their effects on hydrogen/helium retention in tungsten

YG Li, QR Zheng, LM Wei, CG Zhang, Z Zeng - Tungsten, 2020 - Springer
The change in surface damage/microstructures and its effects on the hydrogen (H)
isotope/helium (He) dynamic behavior are the key factors for investigating issues of tungsten …

Atomistically-informed hardening and kinetics models of helium bubble in irradiated tungsten

C Ji, J Hu, Z Zhuang, Y Cui - International Journal of Plasticity, 2023 - Elsevier
In fusion reactor environment, helium bubble acts as a crucial inducement to the
performance degradation of plasma facing tungsten, leading to irradiation hardening and …

Hydrogen retention and affecting factors in rolled tungsten: Thermal desorption spectra and molecular dynamics simulations

H Chen, L Wang, F Peng, Q Xu, Y ** and bubbling in nanovoids in bcc metals
J Hou, XS Kong, X Wu, J Song, CS Liu - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
The interplay between hydrogen and nanovoids, despite long being recognized as a central
factor in hydrogen-induced damage in structural materials, remains poorly understood …

An empirical potential for simulating vacancy clusters in tungsten

DR Mason, D Nguyen-Manh… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an empirical interatomic potential for tungsten, particularly well suited for
simulations of vacancy-type defects. We compare energies and structures of vacancy …

Tungsten wall cratering under high-velocity dust impacts: Influence of impact angle and temperature

P Dwivedi, A Fraile, T Polcar - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
The integrity of plasma-facing components (PFCs) in fusion reactors is severely tested by
high-velocity dust collisions, which occur during explosive events such as runaway electron …

Multiscale modelling of the interaction of hydrogen with interstitial defects and dislocations in BCC tungsten

A De Backer, DR Mason, C Domain… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In a fusion tokamak, the plasma of hydrogen isotopes is in contact with tungsten at the
surface of a divertor. In the bulk of the material, the hydrogen concentration profile tends …

Relaxation volumes of microscopic and mesoscopic irradiation-induced defects in tungsten

DR Mason, D Nguyen-Manh, MC Marinica… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The low-energy structures of irradiation-induced defects in materials have been studied
extensively over several decades, as these determine the available modes by which a …

Embedded-atom method potential for modeling hydrogen and hydrogen-defect interaction in tungsten

LF Wang, X Shu, GH Lu, F Gao - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
An embedded-atom method potential has been developed for modeling hydrogen in body-
centered-cubic (bcc) tungsten by fitting to an extensive database of density functional theory …

Analytical WH, HH and H-He interatomic potentials for a WH-He system

XC Li, YW Li, HX Huang, YH Li, HB Zhou, GH Lu… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2025 - Elsevier
Tungsten (W) is regarded as a primary candidate for plasma-facing materials in nuclear
fusion devices. Within fusion reactors, high-energy neutron irradiation leads to the …