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 …

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 …

Enhancing radiation tolerance by controlling defect mobility and migration pathways in multicomponent single-phase alloys

C Lu, L Niu, N Chen, K Jin, T Yang, P Xiu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A grand challenge in material science is to understand the correlation between intrinsic
properties and defect dynamics. Radiation tolerant materials are in great demand for safe …

Microstructural stability and mechanical behavior of FeNiMnCr high entropy alloy under ion irradiation

NAPK Kumar, C Li, KJ Leonard, H Bei, SJ Zinkle - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent years, high entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted significant attention due to their
excellent mechanical properties and good corrosion resistance, making them potential …

Enhancing the radiation tolerance of high-entropy alloys via solute-promoted chemical heterogeneities

Z Su, J Ding, M Song, L Jiang, T Shi, Z Li, S Wang… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) composed of multiple principal elements have the potential to
offer extraordinary radiation resistance. Using NiCoFeCrMn HEA as a model, here we …

Enhanced radiation tolerance of the Ni-Co-Cr-Fe high-entropy alloy as revealed from primary damage

Y Lin, T Yang, L Lang, C Shan, H Deng, W Hu, F Gao - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have received much attention for the development of nuclear
materials because of their excellent irradiation tolerance. In the present study, the …

High-entropy alloys and metallic nanocomposites: Processing challenges, microstructure development and property enhancement

AS Sharma, S Yadav, K Biswas, B Basu - Materials Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Two classes of new materials, ie high entropy alloys (HEAs) and metallic nanocomposites
offer processing related challenges, while showing significant promise for an array of …

Direct observation of defect range and evolution in ion-irradiated single crystalline Ni and Ni binary alloys

C Lu, K Jin, LK Béland, F Zhang, T Yang, L Qiao… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Energetic ions have been widely used to evaluate the irradiation tolerance of structural
materials for nuclear power applications and to modify material properties. It is important to …

Ultrastrong nanocrystalline steel with exceptional thermal stability and radiation tolerance

C Du, S Jin, Y Fang, J Li, S Hu, T Yang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Nanocrystalline (NC) metals are stronger and more radiation-tolerant than their coarse-
grained (CG) counterparts, but they often suffer from poor thermal stability as nanograins …

An in situ study on the effect of grain boundaries on helium bubble formation in dual beam irradiated FeCrAl alloy

T Sun, T Niu, Z Shang, WY Chen, M Li, H Wang… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
FeCrAl alloy is one of the promising cladding materials in the advanced nuclear reactors.
Here we compare the irradiation response of the nanolaminate (NL) and coarse-grained …