Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

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

  • Chenyang Lu,
  • Liangliang Niu,
  • Nanjun Chen,
  • Ke Jin,
  • Taini Yang,
  • Pengyuan Xiu,
  • Yanwen Zhang,
  • Fei Gao,
  • Hongbin Bei,
  • Shi Shi,
  • Mo-Rigen He,
  • Ian M. Robertson,
  • William J. Weber,
  • Lumin Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13564
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Radiation tolerance is a property determined both by materials structure and defect dynamics. Here authors demonstrate enhancement of radiation tolerance at elevated temperatures in equiatomic single-phase concentrated solid solution alloys and propose an underlying mechanism.