Irradiation-induced grain growth and defect evolution in nanocrystalline zirconia with doped grain boundaries

Dey, Sanchita; Mardinly, John; Wang, Yongqiang; Valdez, James Anthony; Holesinger, Terry George; Uberuaga, Blas P.; Ditto, Jeff J.; Drazin, John W.; Castro, Ricardo H.  R.

doi:10.1039/C6CP01763K

Title: Irradiation-induced grain growth and defect evolution in nanocrystalline zirconia with doped grain boundaries

Journal Article · Fri May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CP01763K· OSTI ID:1337107

Dey, Sanchita ^[1]; Mardinly, John ^[2];

^[3]; Valdez, James Anthony ^[3]; Holesinger, Terry George ^[4]; Uberuaga, Blas P. ^[3]; Ditto, Jeff J. ^[5]; Drazin, John W. ^[1]; Castro, Ricardo H. R. ^[1]

Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Department of Materials Science and Engineering & NEAT ORU
Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States). John Cowley Center for HREM, LE-CSSS
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Materials Science and Technology Division
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Materials Physics and Applications Division
Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR (United States). Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Grain boundaries are effective sinks for radiation-induced defects, ultimately impacting the radiation tolerance of nanocrystalline materials (dense materials with nanosized grains) against net defect accumulation. However, irradiation-induced grain growth leads to grain boundary area decrease, shortening potential benefits of nanostructures. A possible approach to mitigate this is the introduction of dopants to target a decrease in grain boundary mobility or a reduction in grain boundary energy to eliminate driving forces for grain growth (using similar strategies as to control thermal growth). Here, in this study, we tested this concept in nanocrystalline zirconia doped with lanthanum. Although the dopant is observed to segregate to the grain boundaries, causing grain boundary energy decrease and promoting dragging forces for thermally activated boundary movement, irradiation induced grain growth could not be avoided under heavy ion irradiation, suggesting a different growth mechanism as compared to thermal growth. Furthermore, it is apparent that reducing the grain boundary energy reduced the effectiveness of the grain boundary as sinks, and the number of defects in the doped material is higher than in undoped (La-free) YSZ.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1337107

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-16-23776

Journal Information:: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. PCCP, Vol. 18, Issue 25; ISSN 1463-9076

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 19 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (32)

Progress in the development of zirconia gas sensors Maskell, W. Solid State Ionics, Vol. 134, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-2738(00)00712-8	journal	October 2000
Fast Ionic Conductivity of Fluorine Anions with Fluorite -or Tysonite-Type Structures Reau,, Jean-Maurice; Hagenmuller,, Paul Reviews in Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 19, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1515/REVIC.1999.19.1-2.45	journal	January 1999
Radiation Tolerance of Nanocrystalline Ceramics: Insights from Yttria Stabilized Zirconia Dey, Sanchita; Drazin, John W.; Wang, Yongqiang Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07746	journal	January 2015
Irradiation effects on nanocrystalline materials Chang, Yong-Qin; Guo, Qiang; Zhang, Jing Frontiers of Materials Science, Vol. 7, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11706-013-0199-3	journal	May 2013
Enhanced radiation tolerance in nanocrystalline MgGa2O4 Shen, Tong D.; Feng, Shihai; Tang, Ming Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 90, Issue 26 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2753098	journal	June 2007
Calculated grain size-dependent vacancy supersaturation and its effect on void formation Singh, B. N.; Foreman, A. J. E. Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 29, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1080/14786437408222075	journal	April 1974
Radiation tolerance in a nanostructure: Is smaller better? Shen, T. D. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 266, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2008.01.039	journal	March 2008
Irradiation-induced amorphization processes in nanocrystalline solids Ovid’ko, I. A.; Sheinerman, A. G. Applied Physics A, Vol. 81, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-004-2960-z	journal	October 2005
Amorphization of nanocrystalline monoclinic ZrO2 by swift heavy ion irradiation Lu, Fengyuan; Wang, Jianwei; Lang, Maik Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 14, Issue 35 https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cp41553d	journal	January 2012
Ab initio based rate theory model of radiation induced amorphization in β-SiC Swaminathan, Narasimhan; Morgan, Dane; Szlufarska, Izabela Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol. 414, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2011.05.024	journal	July 2011
Efficient Annealing of Radiation Damage Near Grain Boundaries via Interstitial Emission Bai, X. M.; Voter, A. F.; Hoagland, R. G. Science, Vol. 327, Issue 5973 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1183723	journal	March 2010
Phase Stability in Nanocrystals: A Predictive Diagram for Yttria–Zirconia Drazin, John W.; Castro, Ricardo H. R. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 98, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.13504	journal	February 2015
Amorphization of cubic zirconia by caesium-ion implantation Wang, L. M.; Wang, S. X.; Ewing, R. C. Philosophical Magazine Letters, Vol. 80, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1080/095008300176119	journal	May 2000
A thermal spike model of grain growth under irradiation Kaoumi, D.; Motta, A. T.; Birtcher, R. C. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 104, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2988142	journal	January 2008
Grain growth and phase stability of nanocrystalline cubic zirconia under ion irradiation Zhang, Yanwen; Jiang, Weilin; Wang, Chongmin Physical Review B, Vol. 82, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.184105	journal	November 2010
Structural modification of nanocrystalline ceria by ion beams Zhang, Yanwen; Edmondson, Philip D.; Varga, Tamas Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 13, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1039/c1cp21335k	journal	January 2011
Grain Boundary Mobility in Y2O3: Defect Mechanism and Dopant Effects Chen, Pei-Lin; Chen, I-Wei Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 79, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1151-2916.1996.tb07998.x	journal	July 1996
Alloy effects in nanostructures Weissmüller, J. Nanostructured Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 1-6 https://doi.org/10.1016/0965-9773(93)90088-S	journal	January 1993
Grain coarsening inhibited by solute segregation Kirchheim, Reiner Acta Materialia, Vol. 50, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1359-6454(01)00338-X	journal	January 2002
Nano-scale grain growth inhibited by reducing grain boundary energy through solute segregation Liu, Feng; Kirchheim, Reiner Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 264, Issue 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2003.12.021	journal	March 2004
Grain growth resistant nanocrystalline zirconia by targeting zero grain boundary energies Dey, Sanchita; Chang, Chi-Hsiu; Gong, Mingming Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 30, Issue 20 https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2015.269	journal	September 2015
Sintering and Nanostability: The Thermodynamic Perspective Castro, Ricardo H. R.; Gouvêa, Douglas Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 99, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.14176	journal	March 2016
Design of Desintering in Tin Dioxide Nanoparticles Chang, Chi-Hsiu; Rufner, Jorgen F.; Benthem, Klaus van Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 25, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1021/cm402330u	journal	November 2013
Electric Current Activation of Sintering: A Review of the Pulsed Electric Current Sintering Process: Electric Current Activation of Sintering Munir, Zuhair A.; Quach, Dat V.; Ohyanagi, Manshi Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 94, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.04210.x	journal	November 2010
Role of the interface on radiation damage in the SrTiO ₃ /LaAlO ₃ heterostructure under Ne ²⁺ ion irradiation Bi, Zhenxing; Uberuaga, Blas P.; Vernon, L. J. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 115, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4870052	journal	March 2014
Opposite correlations between cation disordering and amorphization resistance in spinels versus pyrochlores Uberuaga, Blas Pedro; Tang, Ming; Jiang, Chao Nature Communications, Vol. 6, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9750	journal	October 2015
Instability of irradiation induced defects in nanostructured materials Rose, M.; Balogh, A. G.; Hahn, H. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 127-128 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-583X(96)00863-4	journal	May 1997
Transmission Electron Microscopy Williams, David B.; Carter, C. Barry https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76501-3	book	January 2009
Dynamical simulations of radiation damage and defect mobility in MgO Uberuaga, B. P.; Smith, R.; Cleave, A. R. Physical Review B, Vol. 71, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.71.104102	journal	March 2005
Grain Boundary Strengthening in Alumina by Rare Earth Impurities Buban, J. P. Science, Vol. 311, Issue 5758 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1119839	journal	January 2006
The Influence of Grain Boundaries on Radiation-Induced Point Defect Production in Materials: A Review of Atomistic Studies Bai, Xian-Ming; Uberuaga, Blas P. JOM, Vol. 65, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-012-0544-5	journal	January 2013
The relationship between grain boundary structure, defect mobility and grain boundary sink efficiency Uberuaga, Blas Pedro; Vernon, Louis J.; Martinez, Enrique Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep09095	journal	March 2015

Cited By (4)

Radiation tolerance of La-doped nanocrystalline steel under heavy-ion irradiation at different temperatures Fang, Yuan; Ge, Wei; Yang, Tengfei Nanotechnology, Vol. 29, Issue 49 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aae189	journal	October 2018
Defect‐fluorite Gd ₂ Zr ₂ O ₇ ceramics under helium irradiation: Amorphization, cell volume expansion, and multi‐stage bubble formation Huang, Zhangyi; Ma, Nannan; Qi, Jianqi Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 102, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.16364	journal	February 2019
He irradiation‐induced lattice distortion and surface blistering of Gd ₂ Zr ₂ O ₇ defect‐fluorite ceramics Huang, Zhangyi; Zhou, Mao; Cao, Zhangkai Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 103, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.17030	journal	January 2020
Different Radiation Tolerances of Ultrafine-Grained Zirconia–Magnesia Composite Ceramics with Different Grain Sizes Qin, Wenjing; Hong, Mengqing; Wang, Yongqiang Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12172649	journal	August 2019

Similar Records

Radiation tolerance of nanocrystalline ceramics: Insights from yttria stabilized zirconia

Journal Article · Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Scientific Reports · OSTI ID:1337107

Dey, Sanchita; Drazin, John W.; Wang, Yongqiang; +4 more

Grain growth and phase stability of nanocrystalline cubic zirconia under ion irradiation

Journal Article · Wed Nov 10 00:00:00 EST 2010 · Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter, 82(18):184105:1-7 · OSTI ID:1337107

Zhang, Yanwen; Jiang, Weilin; Wang, Chong M; +6 more

Grain Growth and Phase Stability of Nanocrystalline Cubic Zirconia under Ion Irradiation

Journal Article · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2010 · Physical Review B · OSTI ID:1337107

Zhang, Yanwen; Jiang, Weilin; Wang, Chongmin; +6 more

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Title: Irradiation-induced grain growth and defect evolution in nanocrystalline zirconia with doped grain boundaries

Citation Formats

References (32)

Cited By (4)

Similar Records

Related Subjects