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Record W4407762700 · doi:10.1016/j.matdes.2025.113751

High temperature He bubble evolution and thermal stability of the WTaCrV refractory concentrated solid solution alloy

2025· article· en· W4407762700 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueMaterials & Design · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdvanced materials and composites
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
FundersDivision of Materials ResearchMinisterstwo Edukacji i NaukiFundacja na rzecz Nauki PolskiejNarodowe Centrum NaukiCanada Excellence Research Chairs, Government of CanadaHorizon 2020
KeywordsMaterials scienceBubbleAlloyRefractory (planetary science)Thermal stabilityMetallurgySolid solutionRefractory metalsThermodynamicsThermalMechanicsChemical engineering

Abstract

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• The novel WTaCrV refractory concentrated solid solution alloy was subjected to room temperature He + ion irradiation. • The high-temperature evolution of He bubbles was investigated using an in-situ heating TEM technique over a temperature range of 700–1000 °C. • The bubbles remain stable in size up to 700 °C and show no agglomeration up to 800 °C. • Coarsening of the bubbles through migration and coalescence mechanisms was observed at 1000 °C. • The low diffusivity of vacancy-He clusters is responsible for the reduced tendency for high-temperature coarsening of the bubbles in the WTaCrV. In this study, we investigate the thermal stability and high-temperature evolution of He bubbles within the structure of the WTaCrV refractory concentrated solid solution alloy (RCSA), which is dedicated to nuclear fusion applications. The material was first irradiated with He + ions to form nanometric He bubbles within its structure. Subsequently, their high-temperature evolution was studied using an in-situ heating method in a transmission electron microscope over a temperature range of 700 °C to 1000 °C. We found that the bubbles are stable in size up to a temperature of 700 °C and show no agglomeration up to 800 °C. At higher temperatures, the coarsening of the bubbles occurs through the migration and coalescence mechanism; however, even at 1000 °C, the size of the bubbles only slightly exceeds 1 nm. For a more in-depth understanding of the phenomena occurring during high-temperature annealing, molecular dynamics simulations were applied. We demonstrate that the low diffusivity of V m He n clusters in the investigated WTaCrV alloy is responsible for the low tendency for high-temperature coarsening of the bubbles. The results of this study highlight the potential of the WTaCrV RCSA as a refractory, irradiation-resistant material for crucial components in future fusion reactors.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.455

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
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Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.202
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it