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 …

Interfaces including grain boundaries and hetero‐phase interfaces could withstand the
radiation damage via providing sites for trapping the defects. With the urgent demand for …

High entropy alloy (HEA) coatings are promising for use as accident-tolerant fuel cladding
due to their outstanding high-temperature corrosion resistance. In this work, we investigated …

Interface effects on ion-irradiation tolerance properties are investigated in nanolayered
TiN/AlN films with individual layer thickness varied from 5 nm to 50 nm, prepared by pulsed …

A detailed study has been carried out on recrystallised Zr-1.0 Nb alloys corroded and
irradiated under different conditions, including ex-autoclave and ex-reactor samples. After …

Recent studies have shown that chemical immiscibility is important to achieve enhanced
radiation tolerance in metallic multilayers as immiscible layer interfaces are more stable …

Transition metal nitrides coatings have attracted extensive interests as radiation tolerant
coating to separate the fuel and cladding in gas cooled fast reactor in recent years. This …

In an attempt to introduce a new coating structure design strategy to strengthen the high
temperature water corrosion resistance or high temperature oxidation of the coating in the …

ZrN, a refractory ceramic material, finds many potential applications in advanced nuclear
reactors. However, the grain size dependent radiation response in nanocrystalline (nc) ZrN …

Oxide dispersion strengthened ferritic alloys have superior radiation tolerance and thus
become appealing candidates as fuel cladding materials for next generation nuclear …