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 …

Defect-interface interactions

IJ Beyerlein, MJ Demkowicz, A Misra… - Progress in Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Nanostructured materials contain an extremely high density of interfaces. The properties of
these materials when exposed to extreme conditions of radiation dose, stress, deformation …

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 …

The role of interface structure in controlling high helium concentrations

MJ Demkowicz, A Misra, A Caro - Current opinion in solid state and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Interfaces are good traps for implanted He, but are also susceptible to He-induced
embrittlement. Better understanding of the mechanisms of He interactions with interfaces …

Structure, shear resistance and interaction with point defects of interfaces in Cu–Nb nanocomposites synthesized by severe plastic deformation

MJ Demkowicz, L Thilly - Acta materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
Atomistic modeling is used to investigate the shear resistance and interaction with point
defects of a Cu–Nb interface found in nanocomposites synthesized by severe plastic …

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 …

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 …

In situ studies on radiation tolerance of nanotwinned Cu

Y Chen, J Li, KY Yu, H Wang, MA Kirk, M Li, X Zhang - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
We investigate the radiation response of nanotwinned Cu by using in situ Kr ion irradiation
technique inside a transmission electron microscope. In comparison with coarse grained Cu …

Radiation resistant vanadium-graphene nanolayered composite

Y Kim, J Baek, S Kim, S Kim, S Ryu, S Jeon, SM Han - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Ultra high strength V-graphene nanolayers were developed for the first time that was
demonstrated to have an excellent radiation tolerance as revealed by the He+ irradiation …

Recent progress on interfaces in nanomaterials for nuclear radiation resistance

Z Su, H Jiang, H Li, Y Zhang, J Chen, J Zhao… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Interfaces including grain boundaries and hetero‐phase interfaces could withstand the
radiation damage via providing sites for trap** the defects. With the urgent demand for …