Nanomaterials by severe plastic deformation: review of historical developments and recent advances

K Edalati, A Bachmaier, VA Beloshenko… - Materials Research …, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is effective in producing bulk ultrafine-grained and
nanostructured materials with large densities of lattice defects. This field, also known as …

Primary radiation damage: A review of current understanding and models

K Nordlund, SJ Zinkle, AE Sand, F Granberg… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Scientific understanding of any kind of radiation effects starts from the primary damage, ie
the defects that are produced right after an initial atomic displacement event initiated by a …

A quinary WTaCrVHf nanocrystalline refractory high-entropy alloy withholding extreme irradiation environments

O El Atwani, HT Vo, MA Tunes, C Lee… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
In the quest of new materials that can withstand severe irradiation and mechanical extremes
for advanced applications (eg. fission & fusion reactors, space applications, etc.), design …

A promising new class of irradiation tolerant materials: Ti2ZrHfV0. 5Mo0. 2 high-entropy alloy

Y Lu, H Huang, X Gao, C Ren, J Gao, H Zhang… - Journal of materials …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Recently, high-entropy alloys (HEAs) or multi-principal-element alloys with unprecedented
physical, chemical, and mechanical properties, have been considered as candidate …

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 …

Strengthening gold with dispersed nanovoids

JJ Chen, H **e, LZ Liu, H Guan, Z You, L Zou, HJ ** - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Materials often fail prematurely or catastrophically under load while containing voids, posing
a challenge to materials manufacturing. We found that a metal (gold) containing spherical …

Mechanism of radiation damage reduction in equiatomic multicomponent single phase alloys

F Granberg, K Nordlund, MW Ullah, K **, C Lu, H Bei… - Physical review …, 2016‏ - APS
Recently a new class of metal alloys, of single-phase multicomponent composition at
roughly equal atomic concentrations (“equiatomic”), have been shown to exhibit promising …

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 …

Tunable chemical disorder in concentrated alloys: defect physics and radiation performance

Y Zhang, YN Osetsky, WJ Weber - Chemical Reviews, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
The development of advanced structural alloys with performance meeting the requirements
of extreme environments in nuclear reactors has been long pursued. In the long history of …

Growth twins and deformation twins in metals

IJ Beyerlein, X Zhang, A Misra - Annual Review of Materials …, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent basic research on two classes of twins: growth twins and
deformation twins. We focus primarily on studies that aim to understand, via experiments …