Ultrahigh strength, thermal stability and high thermal conductivity in hierarchical nanostructured Cu-W alloy

JG Ke, R Liu, ZM **e, LC Zhang, XP Wang, QF Fang… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
The wider application of copper alloys is challenged due to their relatively low strength and
thermal stability. Here we report a nano-reinforcement dispersion strategy to achieved an …

Development of next generation tempered and ODS reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steels for fusion energy applications

SJ Zinkle, JL Boutard, DT Hoelzer, A Kimura… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steels are currently the most technologically mature
option for the structural material of proposed fusion energy reactors. Advanced next …

Ductile ultrastrong China low activation martensitic steel with lamellar grain structure

JH Zhou, J Wang, RO Ritchie, YC Wu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The low high-temperature mechanical properties of reduced activated ferrite martensitic
(RAFM) heat-resistant steels limit the maximum operating temperature of nuclear fusion …

Microstructural stability of modified 9Cr–1Mo steel during long term exposures at elevated temperatures

VT Paul, S Saroja, M Vijayalakshmi - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper describes the stability of microstructure in normalized and tempered modified 9Cr–
1Mo steel exposed to service temperatures in the range of 773–873K for different time …

Strengthening a fine-grained low activation martensitic steel by nanosized carbides

JH Zhou, YF Shen, YY Hong, WY Xue… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The significance of Ti in promoting the nucleation of MX-type carbides and further refine the
MX carbides is currently unknown. Thus, we study here by high resolution transmission …

Exceptional tensile ductility and strength of a BCC structure CLAM steel with lamellar grains at 77 kelvin

J Zhou, J Wang, J Ren, RO Ritchie, Z Wang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The low-temperature tensile brittleness of body-centered cubic (BCC) metals and alloys can
seriously compromise their service applications. In this study, we prepared a BCC structured …

An overview of the welding technologies of CLAM steels for fusion application

X Chen, Y Huang, B Madigan, J Zhou - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2012 - Elsevier
China Low Activation Martensitic steel (CLAMs), a kind of RAFM steel with Chinese
intellectual property rights, is considered as the primary structural material for the China …

High strength-superplasticity combination of ultrafine-grained ferritic steel: The significant role of nanoscale carbides

JW Liang, YF Shen, RDK Misra, PK Liaw - Journal of Materials Science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is currently a gap in our understanding of mechanisms that contribute to high strength
and high plasticity in high strength UFG ferritic steel with nano-size Fe 3 C carbides in …

Low activation V–Fe–Cr–Mn high-entropy alloys with exceptional strength

LL Ma, XW Li, BR Sun, SW **n, TD Shen - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
V-based alloys such as V–4Cr–4Ti are one of the most promising candidate materials for
fusion energy demonstration reactors, owing to their low activation and excellent resistance …

Toughening mechanisms of epoxy resin using aminated metal-organic framework as additive

C Hu, JD **ao, XD Mao, LL Song, XY Yang, SJ Liu - Materials Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Improvement of the mechanical properties of epoxy resins (EP), which are used as neutron
shielding materials for spent nuclear fuel casks, is becoming very important. In this paper, as …