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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 3, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao2710
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- Laboratory Directed Research and Development program at Los Alamos National Laboratory [20150567ER]
- U.S. DOE [DE-AC52-06NA25396]
- DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research program
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education [DE-SC0014664]
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Material degradation due to precipitation of implanted helium (He) is a key concern in nuclear energy. Decades of research have mapped out the fate of He precipitates in metals, from nucleation and growth of equiaxed bubbles and voids to formation and bursting of surface blisters. By contrast, we show that He precipitates confined within nanoscale metal layers depart from their classical growth trajectories: They self-organize into elongated channels. These channels form via templated nucleation of He precipitates along layer surfaces followed by their growth and spontaneous coalescence into stable precipitate lines. The total line length and connectivity increases with the amount of implanted He, indicating that these channels ultimately interconnect into percolating vascular networks. Vascularized metal composites promise a transformative solution to He-induced damage by enabling in operando outgassing of He and other impurities while maintaining material integrity.
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