MIBL Supports Study of Irradiation and Surface Effects on SiC Corrosion
New research led by Peng Wang and shared by Stephen Raiman examines how irradiation-induced defects and surface roughness affect the hydrothermal corrosion of silicon carbide. The work used the Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory.
For the conditions studied, surface roughness influenced corrosion rates, while pre-irradiation did not. The result raises useful comparisons with earlier work on simultaneous irradiation and corrosion, emphasizing why the sequence and coupling of environmental exposures matter when evaluating nuclear materials.
