“…Plates 15 mm × 15 mm× 0.5 mm from the 321 stainless austenitic steel (1.2% C, 18% Cr, 10% Ni, 1% Ti) [81] were polished (including their edges) to form their flat surfaces with a roughness Ra of 20 nm. Then, the samples were irradiated using a 'TEMP-4M' HIPIB accelerator (Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia) [69,70,[77][78][79][80] at an accelerating voltage of 200 kV, a pulse width at half maximum of 100 ns and energy densities of 0.6, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 J/cm 2 . The beam composition was about 85% C + ions and 15% protons.…”