Probing the effect of radiation damage on the structure of rare-earth phosphates》.pdf

Journal of Alloys and Compounds 653 (2015) 279 e289 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Alloys and Compounds journal homepage: http://www.elsevier .com/locate/jalcom Probing the effect of radiation damage on the structure of rare-earth phosphates * Mohamed Ruwaid Rafiuddin, Andrew P. Grosvenor Department of Chemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 5C9 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: 0 Synthetic analogues of naturally occurring monazite (REPO ; RE ¼ La to Gd) and xenotime (RE PO ; 4 4 Received 17 June 2015 RE0 ¼ Tb to Lu and Y) minerals have been identified as potential wasteforms for nuclear waste. High Received in revised form energy ion-implantation of crystalline materials simulates radiation-induced structural damage and 14 August 2015 allows for the radiation resistance of a crystal structure to be probed. The structural stability of Au ion- Accepted 31 August 2015 implanted La Yb PO materials was investigated using micro-X-ray diffraction (m-XRD)