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Front Mater Sci    2013, Vol. 7 Issue (2) : 143-155    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11706-013-0199-3
REVIEW ARTICLE
Irradiation effects on nanocrystalline materials
Yong-Qin CHANG(), Qiang GUO, Jing ZHANG, Lin CHEN, Yi LONG, Fa-Rong WAN
School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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Abstract

In recent years, nanocrystalline materials with grain size below 100 nm have attracted much interest due to their excellent chemical, physical, and optical properties. This review focuses on the irradiation effects of nanocrystalline materials. It has been generally believed that nanocrystalline materials have a great potential to increase irradiation resistance in the future reactor because of a large fraction of grain boundaries or interfaces that could absorb and annihilate mobile defects which produced during irradiation. Some calculation results and experiment results revealed that nanocrystalline materials can enhance irradiation resistance, while some reports showed that nanocrystalline materials exhibit worse irradiation resistance, or even amorphous at a lower irradiation dose compared with their bulk materials. During the irradiation process, the grain growth dominated by irradiation dose, thermal effect or defects was also disputed. Irradiation is also an important tool to tailor the grain size, phase structure and physical properties of the materials.

Keywords nanocrystalline material      irradiation      resistance      grain growth     
Corresponding Author(s): CHANG Yong-Qin,Email:chang@ustb.edu.cn   
Issue Date: 05 June 2013
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Yong-Qin CHANG,Qiang GUO,Jing ZHANG, et al. Irradiation effects on nanocrystalline materials[J]. Front Mater Sci, 2013, 7(2): 143-155.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/foms/EN/Y2013/V7/I2/143
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