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Influence of chemical disorder on energy dissipation and defect evolution in advanced alloys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2016

Yanwen Zhang ,
Ke Jin ,
Haizhou Xue ,
Chenyang Lu ,
Raina J. Olsen ,
Laurent K. Beland ,
Mohammad W. Ullah ,
Shijun Zhao ,
Hongbin Bei  and
Dilpuneet S. Aidhy
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Yanwen Zhang*
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Ke Jin
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Haizhou Xue
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Chenyang Lu
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Raina J. Olsen
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Laurent K. Beland
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Mohammad W. Ullah
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Shijun Zhao
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Hongbin Bei
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Dilpuneet S. Aidhy
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
German D. Samolyuk
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Lumin Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Magdalena Caro
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Alfredo Caro
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
G. Malcolm Stocks
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Ben C. Larson
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Ian M. Robertson
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Alfredo A. Correa
Affiliation:
Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
William J. Weber
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA; and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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Abstract

Historically, alloy development with better radiation performance has been focused on traditional alloys with one or two principal element(s) and minor alloying elements, where enhanced radiation resistance depends on microstructural or nanoscale features to mitigate displacement damage. In sharp contrast to traditional alloys, recent advances of single-phase concentrated solid solution alloys (SP-CSAs) have opened up new frontiers in materials research. In these alloys, a random arrangement of multiple elemental species on a crystalline lattice results in disordered local chemical environments and unique site-to-site lattice distortions. Based on closely integrated computational and experimental studies using a novel set of SP-CSAs in a face-centered cubic structure, we have explicitly demonstrated that increasing chemical disorder can lead to a substantial reduction in electron mean free paths, as well as electrical and thermal conductivity, which results in slower heat dissipation in SP-CSAs. The chemical disorder also has a significant impact on defect evolution under ion irradiation. Considerable improvement in radiation resistance is observed with increasing chemical disorder at electronic and atomic levels. The insights into defect dynamics may provide a basis for understanding elemental effects on evolution of radiation damage in irradiated materials and may inspire new design principles of radiation-tolerant structural alloys for advanced energy systems.

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radiation effectsion–solid interactionsalloy
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 31 , Issue 16 , 29 August 2016 , pp. 2363 - 2375
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2016 

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