Imperial College London
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DrMarkWenman

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials

Reader in Nuclear Materials
 
 
 
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@article{Than:2018:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.06.029,
author = {Than, YR and Wenman, MR and Bell, BDC and Ortner, SR and Swan, H and Grimes, RW},
doi = {10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.06.029},
journal = {Journal of Nuclear Materials},
pages = {114--123},
title = {Modelling and experimental analysis of the effect of solute iron in thermally grown Zircaloy-4 oxides},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.06.029},
volume = {509},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Simulations based on density functional theory (DFT) were used to investigate the behaviour of substitutional iron in both tetragonal and monoclinic ZrO2. Brouwer diagrams of predicted defect concentrations, as a function of oxygen partial pressure, suggest that iron behaves as a p-type dopant in monoclinic ZrO2 while it binds strongly to oxygen vacancies in tetragonal ZrO2. Analysis of defect relaxation volumes suggest that these results should hold true in thermally grown oxides on zirconium, which is under compressive stresses. X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) measurements, performed to determine the oxidation state of iron in Zircaloy-4 oxide samples, revealed that 3 + is the favourable oxidation state but with between a third and half of the iron, still in the metallic Fe0 state. The DFT calculations on bulk zirconia agree with the preferred oxidation state of iron if it is a substitutional species but do not predict the presence of metallic iron in the oxide. The implications of these results with respect to the corrosion and hydrogen pick-up of zirconium cladding are discussed.
AU  - Than,YR
AU  - Wenman,MR
AU  - Bell,BDC
AU  - Ortner,SR
AU  - Swan,H
AU  - Grimes,RW
DO  - 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.06.029
EP  - 123
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 0022-3115
SP  - 114
TI  - Modelling and experimental analysis of the effect of solute iron in thermally grown Zircaloy-4 oxides
T2  - Journal of Nuclear Materials
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.06.029
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002231151731512X?via%3Dihub
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/81759
VL  - 509
ER  -
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