Journal
JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
Volume 479, Issue -, Pages 224-231Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.06.049
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Funding
- DOE, Office of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies, Reactor Materials program [DE-NE0000533]
- Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin through the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) [ACI-1053575]
- National Science Foundation
- NERSC [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- OLCF [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- DOE Office of Science
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Precipitation of implanted helium (He) is detrimental to many nuclear materials. A solid in which implanted He does not precipitate, but rather remains in solution and diffuses readily is potentially of interest for applications requiring resistance to He-induced damage. We use density functional theory (DFT) calculations to examine He interstitial formation, migration, and clustering energies in two SiO2 polymorphs: alpha-quartz and beta-cristobalite. Our findings show greater He solubility and mobility in the latter than in the former. This difference appears to be due primarily to the unlike atomic-level structures of alpha-quartz and beta-cristobalite, rather than their differing densities. Our findings also suggest that He is unlikely to cluster in either material. The behavior of He in alpha-quartz and beta-cristobalite, and similar forms of silica make them promising materials for further investigation for potential use in applications requiring resistance to He-induced damage. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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