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Yongfeng Zhang

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics

1415 Engineering Drive

Madison, WI 53706

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

13

DOWNLOADS

719

TOTAL CITATIONS

4

Scholarly Papers (13)

1.

Irradiation-Condition Dependent Mechanisms Controlling Buffer Densification and Fracture in Triso Nuclear Fuel Particles

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Jul 2024
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics
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Citation 2

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TRISO Nuclear Fuel Particle buffer, irradiation, Failure, Pyrocarbon buffer, Porous carbon, FIB/SEM tomography

2.

Interplay between Thermal Vacancy and Short-Range Order in Complex Concentrated Alloys

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 31 Oct 2023
Anus Manzoor and Yongfeng Zhang
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics
Downloads 88 (753,595)

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Complex concentrated alloys, Short range ordering, Vacancy, Thermodynamics, kinetics

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The Effects of Temperature and Dose Rate on the Properties of Irradiation Induced Void Superlattices

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 29 Nov 2021
Anton Schneider, Yongfeng Zhang, Chao Jiang and Jian Gan
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory - Department of Computational Mechanics and Materials
Downloads 87 (759,537)

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Void superlattice, AKMC simulation, irradiation, temperature-dose rate correlation

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New Insights on the Effects of Chemistry and Temperature on Α’ Precipitation During Aging of Fecral Alloys

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Nov 2023
affiliation not provided to SSRN, GE Research, Lehigh University, Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, GE Research, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics, GE Research, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, General Electric Company - GE Global Research and General Electric Company - GE Global Research
Downloads 66 (907,769)
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FeCrAl, Age hardening, α' precipitation, CALPHAD, Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC)

5.

Oxygen Interstitial-Assisted Cation Interstitial Diffusion in Fluorite Oxides

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 26 Sep 2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics
Downloads 59 (970,490)

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Fluorite oxide, Interstitial cluster migration, Density functional theory (DFT), Molecular dynamics simulation (MD)

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Phase-field Modeling of the Impacts of Fission Fragment Tracks on Intragranular Gas Bubble Evolution in UO2

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Sep 2025
Albert C. Lin, Yongfeng Zhang and Thomas Black
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 51 (1,052,702)

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fission fragment tracks, fission gas bubbles, bubble nucleation, bubble re-solution, phase-field

7.

Defect Evolution and Loop Unfaulting in Single Crystal Thorium Dioxide Under High-Temperature Proton Irradiation

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Dec 2024
Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Government of the United States of America - Division of Characterization and Post-Irradiation Examination, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, Texas A&M University - Department of Nuclear Engineering, Wright Patterson Air Force Base - Air Force Research Laboratory, Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics, Pennsylvania State University, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory and Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory
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single crystal ThO2, irradiation damage, extended defects, dislocation loops, proton-irradiation

8.

A Molecular Dynamics Survey of Grain Boundary Energy in Uranium Dioxide and Cerium Dioxide

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 26 Nov 2021
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics, Brigham Young University Idaho, Brigham Young University Idaho, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Virginia Tech and Idaho National Laboratory - Computational Mechanics and Materials Department
Downloads 49 (1,074,648)
Citation 1

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Fluorite phase oxides, grain boundary anisotropy, molecular dynamics, crystal structure, bonding

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New Insights on the Effects of Chemistry and Temperature on Α’ Precipitation During Aging of ­­Fecral Alloys

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Jun 2024
General Electric Company - GE Global Research, GE Research, Lehigh University, Government of the United States of America - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, GE Research, Government of the United States of America - Idaho National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics, GE Research, General Electric Company - GE Global Research, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, General Electric Company - GE Global Research and General Electric Company - GE Global Research
Downloads 41 (1,170,409)

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FeCrAl, Age hardening, α' precipitation, CALPHAD, Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC)

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Fundamental Insights into Electrochemical Molten Salt-Metal Interactions Using Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Mar 2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Government of the United States of America - Los Alamos National Laboratory and Government of the United States of America - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Downloads 40 (1,183,237)

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Molten salt, FeCr, Interface, Electric double layer, charge transfer, ab initio molecular dynamics

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Systematic 3d Quantification of Structure, Nanotexture, and Texture of Simulated Pyrolytic Carbons

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
Raphaëlle DAVID, Jean-Marc Leyssale and Yongfeng Zhang
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Bordeaux and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics
Downloads 39 (1,196,171)

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Pyrolytic Carbons, Aromatic Carbons, Structure, Nanotexture, Texture, Descriptor

12.

Impact of Chemical Ordering on Thermodynamic Properties of Point Defects and Xe Substitutional in U-10mo

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Jan 2025
Ziang Yu, Benjamin Beeler and Yongfeng Zhang
University of Wisconsin-Madison, North Carolina State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics
Downloads 33 (1,277,121)

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U-Mo fuelShort range order (SRO)Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo (MDMC)Point defect

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Charge redistribution at metal–ZrO2 interfaces: A combined DFT and continuum electrostatic study

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Feb 2026
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Engineering Physics, University of Central Florida, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florida State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Madison
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metal-oxide interface, interfacial electrostatics, DFT simulation, Schottky barrier height (SBH)