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Record W7117166818 · doi:10.1038/s41529-025-00727-y

Combining 2D simulations with atom probe tomography to investigate radiation-induced segregation near nanoscale cavities

2025· article· en· W7117166818 on OpenAlex
Xinyuan Xu, Xingyu Liu, William J. Weber, Yanwen Zhang, Xing Wang

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Bibliographic record

Venuenpj Materials Degradation · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdvanced Materials Characterization Techniques
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
FundersBasic Energy SciencesOffice of Nuclear EnergyOffice of ScienceU.S. Department of Energy
KeywordsAtom probeGrain boundaryBubbleNanoscopic scaleHeliumAtom (system on chip)Coupling (piping)Grain size

Abstract

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Abstract Radiation-induced segregation (RIS) is a non-equilibrium phenomenon that can significantly alter local composition and degrade material properties. Although extensive research has focused on RIS near grain boundaries, much less attention has been given to RIS near nanosized cavities, including voids and gas-filled bubbles, which are primary contributors to material swelling. Compared with grain boundaries, cavities exhibit unique characteristics as defect sinks, such as spherical geometry, potentially higher density, and shorter distances between sinks. Although conventional one-dimensional (1D) models can capture basic features of RIS near isolated cavities, our calculations showed that they failed to reproduce experimental RIS profiles near closely spaced bubbles, an arrangement commonly observed in irradiated materials due to heterogenous bubble nucleation. In this study, we combined two-dimensional (2D) simulations with atom probe tomography (APT) experiments to investigate RIS near helium bubbles in a Ni 50 Fe 50 model alloy. The 2D simulations achieved good agreement with the experimental data. Moreover, we identified a non-linear coupling effect between neighboring bubbles: Ni segregation between two bubbles was higher than that from a single bubble, but lower than the linear sum of two isolated bubbles. These results demonstrate that the 2D RIS model is essential for simulating complex RIS behavior near cavities, thereby enabling more accurate predictions of microstructural evolution and property changes in materials under extensive irradiation.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
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 score0.071
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Bibliometrics0.0000.001
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Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.230
Teacher spread0.221 · 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