Abstract
Unique interactions of radiation effects and interfacial chemistry processes are possible when an energetic ion beam passes through the interface between a solid metal surface and a liquid. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new ion beam method to investigate some of these effects. A liquid mercury target and a water target contained in a block with a steel foil window on one end have been irradiated through the foil with 2 MeV protons. The initial results for mercury show no interaction detectable above background; the initial results for water indicate radiation enhanced corrosion on the foil surface.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 325-330 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Nuclear Materials |
| Volume | 265 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1999 |
Funding
Research sponsored by the Division of Materials Sciences, US Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC05-96OR22464 with Lockheed-Martin Energy Research Corporation. The authors wish to acknowledge Dr Ed Kenik for the SEM measurements and Dr L.K. Mansur for helpful suggestions. We also wish to thank Drs Eal Lee, J.R. DiStefano and S.J. Pawel for technical review of the manuscript.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Division of Materials Sciences | |
| Lockheed-Martin Energy Research Corporation | |
| U.S. Department of Energy | DE-AC05-96OR22464 |