Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2014
The kinetic/thermodynamic stabilization recent results of grain growth in nanomaterials (NMs)-based metals, alloys, and compounds are generalized. Due to their large share of interfaces which can act as the sinks for radiation defects, NMs show improved irradiation resistance such as the resistance to amorphization, hardening and swelling. Radiation defects will tend also to the nanostructure annihilation and transformation into amorphous state. Some unsolved problems are emphasized.