Corrosion has a wide impact on society, causing catastrophic damage to structurally
engineered components. An emerging class of corrosion-resistant materials are high …

Most research on the hydrogen embrittlement of steel dealt with the interaction of hydrogen
with the metal bulk microstructural features, whereas the first contact with hydrogen …

Iron-nickel based stainless steel (SS) applied in nuclear plants as a substrate material
barely suppresses the permeation of hydrogen plasmas, which are mainly composed of …

Metal oxides and carbides are promising tritium permeation barrier coatings for fusion
reactors. However, the thermomechanical mismatch between the coating and substrate …

In this work, hematite (α-Fe 2 O 3) onto (FTO)-coated glass substrates have been prepared
by electrodeposition technique using cyclic voltammetry process. Various samples of α-Fe 2 …

Nowadays, material aging issues in the nuclear industry have received wide attention as
they need costly maintenance strategies to deal with. Therefore, it is important to study the …

Ceramics are the most promising candidates for tritium permeation barriers for fusion
reactors due to their high thermal and chemical stabilities and low hydrogen isotope …

Magnetite was successfully obtained from the reduction of maghemite in the presence of
silver nanoparticles (AgNP), over the surface of 304 stainless steel (304SS). This AgNP …

The properties of a coating depend on its integrity and the interface properties between the
coating and the substrate. Erbium oxide coatings with and without pre-sputtered Er interlayer …

To simulate and investigate the irradiation damage of neutron and transmutation effect (He
production) on the hydrogen isotope trapping behavior, in the present study, a new …