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DOE OSTI2025

Thermodynamic assessment of the quaternary WTaCrV refractory high entropy alloy as a means to guide experimental approaches

The deployment of fusion energy poses challenges for materials in plasma facing components to withstand high temperatures and thermal gradients, particle implantation and neutron damage. The current material of choice is tungsten, although property degradation limits its consideration in future fusion reactors. Hence, materials with better resistance to harsh environments need to be developed for fusion energy to become a reality. High entropy alloys are being explored as potential candidates with some compositions showing good radiation resistance to defect cluster formation. One of these materials is the WTaCrV system, although only one composition has been tested under ion irradiation. In this work, we study the thermodynamic properties of the entire quaternary alloy composition range. Coupling first principles calculations, cluster expansion approaches, and Monte Carlo methods, we access the free energy functionals, short-range ordering as a function of temperature, and atomic configurations that can be compared to experimental observations. We use this data to inform experiments into compositions with higher propensity to form solid solutions, instead of phase separating. With this formalism we have developed thermodynamic database (TDB) files that can be used to plot quaternary phase diagrams.

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DOE OSTI2018

Isotopic coherence of refractory inclusions from CV and CK meteorites: Evidence from multiple isotope systems

Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) are the oldest dated materials in the Solar System and numerous previous studies have revealed nucleosynthetic anomalies relative to terrestrial rock standards in many isotopic systems. However, most of the isotopic data from CAIs has been limited to the Allende meteorite and a handful of other CV3 chondrites. To better constrain the isotopic composition of the CAI-forming region, we report the first Sr, Mo, Ba, Nd, and Sm isotopic compositions of two CAIs hosted in the CK3 desert meteorites NWA 4964 and NWA 6254 along with two CAIs from the CV3 desert meteorites NWA 6619 and NWA 6991. After consideration of neutron capture processes and the effects of hot-desert weathering, the Sr, Mo, Ba, Nd, and Sm stable isotopic compositions of the samples show clearly resolvable nucleosynthetic anomalies that are in agreement with previous results from Allende and other CV meteorites. The extent of neutron capture, as manifested by shifts in the observed 149Sm-150Sm isotopic composition of the CAIs is used to estimate the neutron fluence experienced by some of these samples and ranges from 8.40 × 10 13 to 2.11 × 10 15 n/cm 2 . Overall, regardless of CAI type or host meteorite, CAIs from CV and CK chondrites have similar nucleosynthetic anomalies within analytical uncertainty. We suggest the region that CV and CK CAIs formed was largely uniform with respect to Sr, Mo, Ba, Nd, and Sm isotopes when CAIs condensed and that CAIs hosted in CV and CK meteorites are derived from the same isotopic reservoir.

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