Molecular dynamics analysis of diffusion of uranium and oxygen ions in uranium dioxide

  • Arima T
  • Yoshida K
  • Idemitsu K
  • et al.
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Diffusion behaviours of oxygen and uranium were evaluated for bulk and grain-boundaries of uranium dioxide using the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. It elucidated that oxygen behaved like liquid in superionic state at high temperatures and migrated on sub-lattice sites accompanying formation of lattice defects such as Frenkel defects at middle temperatures. Formation energies of Frenkel and Shottky defects were compared to literature data, and migration energies of oxygen and uranium were estimated by introducing vacancies into the supercell. For grain-boundaries (GB) modelled by the coincidence-site lattice theory, MD calculations showed that GB energy and diffusivities of oxygen and uranium increased with the misorientation angle. By analysing GB structures such as pair-correlation functions, it also showed that the disordered phase was observed for uranium as well as oxygen in GBs especially for a large misorientation angle such as S5 GB. Hence, GB diffusion was much larger than bulk diffusion for oxygen and uranium.

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Arima, T., Yoshida, K., Idemitsu, K., Inagaki, Y., & Sato, I. (2010). Molecular dynamics analysis of diffusion of uranium and oxygen ions in uranium dioxide. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 9, 012003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/9/1/012003

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