Oxidation-Induced Amorphization of Niobium Precipitates in Zirconium Alloys

This article is a commentary on our previous work entitled “Reassessment of oxidation-induced amorphization and dissolution Nb precipitates in Zr-Nb nuclear fuel cladding tube”, published Acta Materialia 2017. The highlight this 2017 paper discovery that solid-state can occur even when the motion atoms (or more precisely, all constituent elements amorphous material) not frozen-in. Although judging from highlight, fundamental study materials, it was originally performed under an engineering research program irrelevant to amorphous. inside story revealed: how such born out research.