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Reassembled nanoprecipitates resisting radiation

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Outstanding resistance to destructive radiation damage in structural alloys is realized by ultra-high-density reversible nanoprecipitate inclusions, and the improvement is attributed to the reordering process of low-misfit superlattices in highly supersaturated matrices.

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Fig. 1: Exploitation of materials far from equilibrium for developing irradiation-tolerant alloys.

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    Yanwen Zhang

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Yanwen Zhang

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Zhang, Y. Reassembled nanoprecipitates resisting radiation. Nat. Mater. 22, 423–424 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01283-5

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