Zirconium carbide (ZrC) is promising candidate materials in advanced nuclear reactors as fuel cladding and plasma facing materials. It can employ to increase ductility and fracture toughness of tungsten as prominent candidate of plasma facing materials in ITER and DEMO future fusion reactors. In this study, ZrC thin films were deposited through DC magnetron sputtering […]
AbstractZirconia nanoparticles were synthesized by a solution combustion technique. Zirconia nanoparticles were grown inside alumina templates to control the crystal size. The alumina templates were characterized by pores of sizes of approximately 6–8 nm. X-ray diffraction line profile analysis using Williamson–Hall method and Warren and Averbach revealed that the alumina templates were characterized by negligible defect-related […]
