Fundamental Understanding of Transport Under Reactor Extremes (FUTURE)
Director
Blas Uberuaga
Lead Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Class
2018-2022
Mission
To understand how the coupled extremes of irradiation and corrosion work in synergy to modify the evolution of materials by coupling experiments and modeling that target fundamental mechanisms.
Research Topics
extreme environments, nuclear, defects, mechanical behavior, corrosion, water, mesoscale science
Systems Studied
Systems: metal, oxide, ceramic, electrolytes, ionic liquid
Interfaces: liquid/solid, solid/solid
Nanostructured: 2D
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
X-ray diffraction and scattering, electron microscopy, surface science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), continuum modeling, mesoscale modeling, multiscale modeling, data science
Partner Institutions
- Bowling Green State University
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- North Carolina State University
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Virginia
