Entry Date:
October 20, 2011

Materials in Extreme Environments and Far from Equilibrium

Principal Investigator Ju Li


Materials in nuclear fission and fusion applications often involve exceptionally high stresses, high temperature and high radiation flux. We study the effects of radiation on microstructure and thermal, electrical and mass transport properties. The concept of fictive temperature(s) that characterize out-of-equilibrium materials is an intriguing statistical mechanics problem, with applications in glasses and even in soft biological materials.