• 文献标题:   Enhancing resistance to radiation hardening and radiation thermal conductivity degradation by tungsten/graphene interface engineering
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SI SY, WANG JL, LI JJ, LI WQ, CONG HJ, LIU JC, TANG J, JIANG CZ, XIA R, XIAO XH
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, tungsten, thermal conductivity, hardnes, radiation resistance
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   0022-3115 EI 1873-4820
  • 通讯作者地址:   Wuhan Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152348
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Radiation damage could be effectively alleviated by metal/graphene interfaces, which act as sinks to absorb defects spontaneously. In this study, four indispensable properties of tungsten nanofilms with inserted graphene monolayers were investigated, including changes in the thermal and mechanical properties as well as their respective radiation responses. We demonstrated that after the introduction of monolayer graphene, the hardness of the tungsten nanofilm was enhanced significantly by graphene interfaces with different densities. Molecular dynamics simulations showed that the presence of graphene interfaces can effectively inhibit dislocation propagation and delay the plastic deformation of tungsten. The cross-plane thermal conductivity of the tungsten nanofilms decreased after graphene was inserted, and this trend became more gradual as the density of the graphene interfaces increased. Uniquely, the thermal conductivity of the tungsten-graphene multilayered nanofilm showed a reduction of similar to 20% after He-ion irradiation at 12.8 dpa compared to the greater than 50% reduction in the pure tungsten nanofilm. Moreover, the hardness of the pure tungsten nanofilm showed an increase of similar to 160%, while the multilayer nanofilms exhibited almost no irradiation hardening. Transmission electron microscopy was used to analyze the effect of defects on the hardness and heat transport. Our results suggest that constructing tungsten/graphene interfaces has great potential in enhancing resistance to radiation thermal conductivity reduction and radiation hardening. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.