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
nuclear, defects, mechanical behavior, corrosion, mesoscale science, mesostructured materials
Materials Studied
Materials: metal, oxide, ionic liquid
Interfaces: liquid/solid, solid/solid
Nanostructured Materials: None
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
electron microscopy, surface science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), mesoscale modeling, multiscale modeling
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
- University of Wisconsin
