Interaction of a diffusion barrier from the refractory metals …
By a broad definition, refractory metals include metals with a melting point above 1850 °C: niobium, molybdenum, tantalum, tungsten, rhenium, titanium, vanadium, chromium, zirconium, hafnium, ruthenium, rhodium, iridium, and osmium (Snead et al., 2019).However, the high thermal neutron capture cross-sections of refractory metals in …