Advanced Alloys for Nuclear Applications
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2021) | Viewed by 3681
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Radiation effects in materials; nuclear materials development; ion implantation; transmission electron microscopy; surface sensitive spectroscopy.
Interests: alloy design;high-entropy alloys;novel refractory alloys; characterization of processing-microstructure-property relationships in steels
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The continued development of advanced nuclear reactor systems, such as Gen-IV fission and fusion reactors, has resulted in significant advances in novel alloy design. These advanced alloys will have to withstand extremes in, and not limited to, temperature, pressure, radiation, and corrosion, and there is often a requirement for them to comprise low-activation elements to limit nuclear waste generation. The material design criteria for advanced reactor systems have led to recent advances in applying computational design methods to novel alloy design; development of reduced activation alloys, including nano-oxide dispersion strengthened steels, refractory alloys, and compositionally complex alloys, including high-entropy alloys (HEAs); as well as advances in understanding radiation damage mechanisms, high-temperature deformation, and corrosion resistance in advanced alloys. In this Special Issue of Metals, we encourage contributions that report on any of these areas. The development of novel alloys is not limited to these areas, and we therefore invite the submission of papers reporting any recent research on the design and development of alloys specifically for application in nuclear technologies.
Dr. Amy Gandy
Dr. Ed Pickering
Dr. Kathy Christofidou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Alloy design
- Alloy development
- Advanced nuclear systems
- Radiation damage
- Corrosion resistance
- High-temperature deformation
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