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Faulted and Perfect Loop Evolution in Single Crystal Thorium Dioxide under High-Temperature Proton Irradiation

Anshul Kamboj, Md Minaruzzaman, Kaustubh Bawane, Lingfeng He, Lin Shao, J. Matthew Mann, Marat Khafizov, Yongfeng Zhang, Miaomiao Jin, David H. Hurley, Boopathy Kombaiah

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