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 …

Nanomaterials by design: a review of nanoscale metallic multilayers

A Sáenz-Trevizo, AM Hodge - Nanotechnology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanoscale metallic multilayers have been shown to have a wide range of outstanding
properties, which differ to a great extent from those observed in monolithic films. Their …

[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) …

Radiation-induced helium bubbles in metals

SH Li, JT Li, WZ Han - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Helium (He) bubbles are typical radiation defects in structural materials in nuclear reactors
after high dose energetic particle irradiation. In the past decades, extensive studies have …

Optical and structural properties of AlN ceramics irradiated with heavy ions

A Kozlovskiy, I Kenzhina, ZA Alyamova, M Zdorovets - Optical Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
The paper presents the results of studying the effect of irradiation with 85 MeV Fe 7+ ions on
the optical and structural properties of nitride ceramics at an irradiation temperature of 300 …

Defect-interface interactions in irradiated Cu/Ag nanocomposites

M Wang, IJ Beyerlein, J Zhang, WZ Han - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, we employ transmission electron microscopy and helium ion irradiation to study
the response of biphase interfaces to radiation induced point defect fluxes from the two …

Significant suppression of void swelling and irradiation hardening in a nanograined/nanoprecipitated 14YWT-ODS steel irradiated by helium ions

ZF Wu, LD Xu, HQ Chen, YX Liang, JL Du… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
As one of the most promising first wall/blanket structure materials in fusion reactors, oxide
dispersion strengthened (ODS) ferritic steel has been extensively studied in past decades …

[HTML][HTML] Xe-ion-irradiation-induced structural transitions and elemental diffusion in high-entropy alloy and nitride thin-film multilayers

J Wang, R Shu, J Chai, SG Rao, A Le Febvrier, H Wu… - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
The study aims to understand the irradiation behavior of multilayer coatings composed of
high-entropy materials. Here, we report the structural stability and elemental segregation of …

Unusual size-dependent strengthening mechanisms in helium ion-irradiated immiscible coherent Cu/Co nanolayers

Y Chen, Y Liu, EG Fu, C Sun, KY Yu, M Song, J Li… - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Prior studies on He ion irradiation-induced damage in several immiscible metallic nanolayer
systems with incoherent interfaces show a prominent size effect on mitigation of radiation …

He ion irradiation response of a gradient T91 steel

Z Shang, J Ding, C Fan, D Chen, J Li, Y Zhang, Y Wang… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Metallic materials with a gradient microstructure usually exhibit excellent mechanical
properties. However, the radiation response of gradient structural materials is less well …