Viewpoint: Nanoscale chemistry and crystallography are both the obstacle and pathway to advanced radiation-tolerant materials

Parish, Chad; Wang, Kun; Edmondson, Philip

doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2017.05.014

Title: Viewpoint: Nanoscale chemistry and crystallography are both the obstacle and pathway to advanced radiation-tolerant materials

Journal Article · Mon Jun 12 00:00:00 UTC 2017 · Scripta Materialia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2017.05.014 · OSTI ID:1777824

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science and Technology Div.

New candidate materials for GenIV or fusion nuclear energy systems, e.g., nanostructured ferritic alloys, are distinguished from older-generation nuclear materials by much smaller feature sizes and complex local nanochemistry and crystallography. Established and perspective nuclear materials, e.g. reactor pressure vessel steels or plasma-facing tungsten, also form small nanoscale structures under in-reactor service. Here, we discuss recent advances in materials characterization – high-efficiency X-ray mapping combined with datamining; transmission Kikuchi diffraction; and atom probe tomography – that make it possible to quantitatively characterize these nanoscale structures in unprecedented detail, which enables advances in understanding and modelling of radiation service and degradation.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Supply Chain. Fuel Cycle Research and Development Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1777824

Journal Information:: Scripta Materialia, Journal Name: Scripta Materialia Journal Issue: 0 Vol. 143; ISSN 1359-6462

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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