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Recent progress on understanding the temperature-dependent irradiation resistance ranking among NiFe, NiCoCr, and NiCoFeCr alloys: A review

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Systematic temperature-effects investigations on damage evolution in ion-irradiated Ni-based concentrated solid-solution alloys (CSAs) are pivotal to provide reliance on their use in nuclear applications. In search of the origin behind the temperature-dependent irradiation resistance ranking among equiatomic NiFe, NiCoCr, and NiCoFeCr alloys, we have compared previously experimental and theoretical published data involving ion irradiation experiments performed on these alloys with new ion channeling results from ion-irradiated NiCoFeCr at 500 K. Moreover, the current results are compared with independent theoretical calculations and relevant TEM results from the literature, which allow us to suggest that the lower migration energy of vacancies in NiCoCr, as compared with those in NiFe and NiCoFeCr, is the reason behind why NiCoCr is no longer outperforming NiFe under ion irradiation above 300 K.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported as part of the Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution (EDDE), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Contract Number DE-AC05-00OR22725. The contribution of G. Velişa to this work, after returning to IFIN-HH, was supported under Research Programme Partnership in Priority Areas PNII MEN-UEFISCDI, contract PN 23210201. This work has been partially carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200—EUROfusion). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. Computer time granted by the IT Center for Science—CSC—Finland and the Finnish Grid and Cloud Infrastructure (persistent identifier urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072533) is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA

    G. Velişa, Y. Zhou, Z. Fan & Y. Zhang

  2. Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, P.O.B. MG-6, 077125, Magurele, Romania

    G. Velişa

  3. Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O.B. 43, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    F. Granberg, E. Levo, K. Nordlund & F. Djurabekova

  4. Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

    H. Bei, W. J. Weber & Y. Zhang

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    F. Tuomisto & F. Djurabekova

  6. Energy and Environment Science & Technology, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415, USA

    Y. Zhang

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Velişa, G., Granberg, F., Levo, E. et al. Recent progress on understanding the temperature-dependent irradiation resistance ranking among NiFe, NiCoCr, and NiCoFeCr alloys: A review. Journal of Materials Research 38, 1510–1526 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-023-00922-0

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