journal article·2025-12

Resolving vacancy clustering mechanisms in tungsten via machine-learning-potential-based simulations at experimental time scales

Guo Wei, Zichen Song, Jie Hou, Jiaqi Wang, Akksay Singh, Lei Li

Acta Materialia· Volume 301
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