PMID- 34859248
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20231103
IS  - 2040-3372 (Electronic)
IS  - 2040-3364 (Print)
IS  - 2040-3364 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 48
DP  - 2021 Dec 16
TI  - Irradiation stability and induced ferromagnetism in a nanocrystalline CoCrCuFeNi 
      highly-concentrated alloy.
PG  - 20437-20450
LID - 10.1039/d1nr04915a [doi]
AB  - In the field of radiation damage of crystalline solids, new highly-concentrated 
      alloys (HCAs) are now considered to be suitable candidate materials for next 
      generation fission/fusion reactors due to recently recorded outstanding radiation 
      tolerance. Despite the preliminarily reported extraordinary properties, the 
      mechanisms of degradation, phase instabilities and decomposition of HCAs are 
      still largely unexplored fields of research. Herein, we investigate the response 
      of a nanocrystalline CoCrCuFeNi HCA to thermal annealing and heavy ion 
      irradiation in the temperature range from 293 to 773 K with the objective to 
      analyze the stability of the nanocrystalline HCA in extreme conditions. The 
      results led to the identification of two regimes of response to irradiation: (i) 
      in which the alloy was observed to be tolerant under extreme irradiation 
      conditions and (ii) in which the alloy is subject to matrix phase instabilities. 
      The formation of FeCo monodomain nanoparticles under these conditions is also 
      reported and a differential phase contrast study in the analytical 
      electron-microscope is carried out to qualitatively probe its magnetic 
      properties.
FAU - Tunes, Matheus A
AU  - Tunes MA
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5988-5363
AD  - Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. 
      tunes@lanl.gov.
FAU - Greaves, Graeme
AU  - Greaves G
AD  - School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, UK.
FAU - Rack, Philip D
AU  - Rack PD
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9964-3254
AD  - Joint Staff Center of Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National 
      Laboratory, USA.
AD  - Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee, USA. 
      yzhang1@ornl.gov.
FAU - Boldman, Walker L
AU  - Boldman WL
AD  - Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee, USA. 
      yzhang1@ornl.gov.
FAU - Schon, Claudio G
AU  - Schon CG
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6506-5831
AD  - Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Escola Politecnica, 
      Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
FAU - Pogatscher, Stefan
AU  - Pogatscher S
AD  - Chair of Nonferrous Metallurgy, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria.
FAU - Maloy, Stuart A
AU  - Maloy SA
AD  - Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. 
      tunes@lanl.gov.
FAU - Zhang, Yanwen
AU  - Zhang Y
AD  - Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee, USA. 
      yzhang1@ornl.gov.
AD  - Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
FAU - El-Atwani, Osman
AU  - El-Atwani O
AD  - Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. 
      tunes@lanl.gov.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20211216
PL  - England
TA  - Nanoscale
JT  - Nanoscale
JID - 101525249
SB  - IM
PMC - PMC8675024
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2021/12/04 06:00
MHDA- 2021/12/04 06:01
PMCR- 2021/12/03
CRDT- 2021/12/03 07:12
PHST- 2021/12/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/12/04 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/12/03 07:12 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/12/03 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - d1nr04915a [pii]
AID - 10.1039/d1nr04915a [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Nanoscale. 2021 Dec 16;13(48):20437-20450. doi: 10.1039/d1nr04915a.