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 …

Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM): From scanning nanodiffraction to ptychography and beyond

C Ophus - Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2019 - cambridge.org
Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is widely used for imaging, diffraction,
and spectroscopy of materials down to atomic resolution. Recent advances in detector …

Interplay between grain boundaries and radiation damage

CM Barr, O El-Atwani, D Kaoumi, K Hattar - Jom, 2019 - Springer
The need for enhanced radiation-tolerant materials for advanced nuclear energy designs
has resulted in a growing number of investigations that have explored the effect of grain …

Irradiation-induced grain boundary facet motion: In situ observations and atomic-scale mechanisms

CM Barr, EY Chen, JE Nathaniel, P Lu, DP Adams… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Metals subjected to irradiation environments undergo microstructural evolution and
concomitant degradation, yet the nanoscale mechanisms for such evolution remain elusive …

Thermal stability and irradiation response of nanocrystalline CoCrCuFeNi high-entropy alloy

Y Zhang, MA Tunes, ML Crespillo, F Zhang… - …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Grain growth and phase stability of a nanocrystalline face-centered cubic (fcc) Ni 0.2 Fe 0.2
Co 0.2 Cr 0.2 Cu 0.2 high-entropy alloy (HEA), either thermally-or irradiation-induced, are …

Direct observation of grain-boundary-migration-assisted radiation damage healing in ultrafine grained gold under mechanical stress

S Stangebye, K Ding, Y Zhang, E Lang, K Hattar… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured metals are a promising class of radiation-tolerant materials. A large volume
fraction of grain boundaries (GBs) can provide plenty of sinks for radiation damage, and …

Irradiation‐induced extremes create hierarchical face‐/body‐centered‐cubic phases in nanostructured high entropy alloys

L Jiang, YJ Hu, K Sun, P **
WS Cunningham, K Hattar, Y Zhu, DJ Edwards… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Deliberately designed nanostructured materials containing a high density of dopant
stabilized interfaces provide energetically favorable sites for the annihilation of defects that …

Irradiation softening in a uranium containing NbTiZrU high entropy alloy induced by Xe ion implantation

T Fu, Y Zhu, H Pan, J Shi, T Yi, D **e, Z Shen… - Materials Today …, 2025 - Elsevier
In this work, a novel uranium-containing single-phase bcc NbZr 0.6 Ti 0.4 U x (x= 0.4, 1, 2)
high entropy alloy (HEA, named as U20, U50 and U100) film was designed and prepared …

High cycle fatigue in the transmission electron microscope

DC Bufford, D Stauffer, WM Mook, SA Syed Asif… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
One of the most common causes of structural failure in metals is fatigue induced by cyclic
loading. Historically, microstructure-level analysis of fatigue cracks has primarily been …