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Enhanced self-healing of irradiation defects near a Ni-graphene interface by damaged graphene: Insights from atomistic modeling

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2020.109909

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Nickel-graphene interface; Enhanced self-healing; Irradiation-induced defects; Damaged graphene; Atomistic simulations

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11705087]
  2. Henan Supercomputing Center

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This study uses atomistic simulations to investigate the relationship between irradiation damage behavior of graphene and defect sink efficiency of the nickel-graphene interface. It was found that damaged regions of graphene could enhance the trapping ability of the interface to defects, providing abundant recombination and annihilation sites for irradiation defects and strengthening the energetic and kinetic driving forces of the interface. This reveals a new possible interface-mediated damage healing mechanism in irradiated materials.
Graphene-reinforced nickel matrix nanocomposites with high-density interfaces are recommended as candidate materials for advanced nuclear reactors because of the potential irradiation tolerance. Nonetheless, the mechanism that graphene damage due to irradiation affects the tolerance of the composites remains unclear. Here we report the relationships between irradiation damage behavior of graphene and defect sink efficiency of nickel-graphene interface by using atomistic simulations. With the accumulation of irradiation dose, a nickel-graphene interface exhibits enhanced trapping ability to defects despite the gradually deteriorative damage of graphene. The enhancement originates in that the damaged regions of graphene can provide abundant recombination and/or annihilation sites for irradiation defects and strengthen the energetic and kinetic driving forces of the interface to defects. This study reveals a new possible interface-mediated damage healing mechanism of irradiated materials.

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