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 …

Behavior of tungsten under irradiation and plasma interaction

M Rieth, R Doerner, A Hasegawa, Y Ueda… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
In 1959 the Journal of Nuclear Materials (JNM) was founded and is now celebrating its
Diamond Anniversary year. The present paper is part of a series in which single JNM …

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)) …

In-situ TEM observation of the response of ultrafine-and nanocrystalline-grained tungsten to extreme irradiation environments

O El-Atwani, JA Hinks, G Greaves, S Gonderman… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
The accumulation of defects and in particular He bubbles, can have significant implications
for the performance of materials exposed to the plasma in magnetic-confinement nuclear …

Helium, hydrogen, and fuzz in plasma-facing materials

KD Hammond - Materials Research Express, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Tungsten, the primary material under consideration as the divertor material in magnetic-
confinement nuclear fusion reactors, has been known for the last decade to form'fuzz'—a …

Helium bubble formation in ultrafine and nanocrystalline tungsten under different extreme conditions

O El-Atwani, K Hattar, JA Hinks, G Greaves… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Elsevier
We have investigated the effects of helium ion irradiation energy and sample temperature on
the performance of grain boundaries as helium sinks in ultrafine grained and nanocrystalline …

Large-scale atomistic simulations of low-energy helium implantation into tungsten single crystals

KD Hammond, S Blondel, L Hu, D Maroudas, BD Wirth - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of post-implantation helium behavior in plasma-
facing tungsten single crystals reveal orientation-dependent depth profiles, surface evolution …

Ultrafine tungsten as a plasma-facing component in fusion devices: effect of high flux, high fluence low energy helium irradiation

O El-Atwani, S Gonderman, M Efe… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This work discusses the response of ultrafine-grained tungsten materials to high-flux, high-
fluence, low energy pure He irradiation. Ultrafine-grained tungsten samples were exposed …

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 …

The role of grain size in He bubble formation: Implications for swelling resistance

O El-Atwani, JE Nathaniel II, AC Leff… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
Nanocrystalline metals are postulated as radiation resistant materials due to their high
defect and particle (eg Helium) sink density. Here, the performance of nanocrystalline iron …