Thermal energy transport in oxide nuclear fuel

DH Hurley, A El-Azab, MS Bryan, MWD Cooper… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
To efficiently capture the energy of the nuclear bond, advanced nuclear reactor concepts
seek solid fuels that must withstand unprecedented temperature and radiation extremes. In …

Atomic worlds: Current state and future of atom probe tomography in geoscience

DW Saxey, DE Moser, S Piazolo, SM Reddy, JW Valley - Scripta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Atom Probe Tomography (APT) is rapidly finding new applications within the
geosciences. Historically connected with materials science and semiconductor device …

Discovering Electron‐Transfer‐Driven Changes in Chemical Bonding in Lead Chalcogenides (PbX, where X= Te, Se, S, O)

S Maier, S Steinberg, Y Cheng, CF Schön… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the nature of chemical bonding in solids is crucial to comprehend the
physical and chemical properties of a given compound. To explore changes in chemical …

Surface dynamics of field evaporation in silicon carbide

S Ndiaye, C Bacchi, B Klaes, M Canino… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Silicon carbide (SiC) may be considered as a model system for the study of field ion
evaporation of carbides, which must be understood to perform accurate analyses of these …

Simulation of field-induced molecular dissociation in atom-probe tomography: Identification of a neutral emission channel

D Zanuttini, I Blum, L Rigutti, F Vurpillot, J Douady… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We investigate the dynamics of dicationic metal-oxide molecules under large electric-field
conditions, on the basis of ab initio calculations coupled to molecular dynamics. Applied to …

Quantification of solute deuterium in titanium deuteride by atom probe tomography with both laser pulsing and high-voltage pulsing: Influence of the surface electric …

YH Chang, I Mouton, L Stephenson… - New Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Atom probe tomography (APT) has been increasingly used to investigate hydrogen
embrittlement in metals due to its unique capacity for direct imaging of H atoms interacting …

Compositional accuracy of atom probe tomography measurements in GaN: Impact of experimental parameters and multiple evaporation events

E Di Russo, I Blum, J Houard, M Gilbert, G Da Costa… - Ultramicroscopy, 2018 - Elsevier
A systematic study of the biases occurring in the measurement of the composition of GaN by
Atom Probe Tomography was carried out, in which the role of surface electric field and laser …

Isotopic Correction of Compositional Inaccuracies in the Atom Probe Analysis of LaB6

S Ndiaye, O Bhorade, I Blum, B Klaes… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The atomic-scale characteristics of stoichiometric lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6) material are
investigated in this work using atom probe tomography (APT). The presence of a higher …

Nanoscale chemical imaging of zeolites using atom probe tomography

JE Schmidt, L Peng, JD Poplawsky… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding structure–composition–property relationships in zeolite‐based materials is
critical to engineering improved solid catalysts. However, this can be difficult to realize as …

Direct observation of nanoparticulate goethite recrystallization by atom probe analysis of isotopic tracers

AJ Frierdich, DW Saxey, VR Adineh… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Goethite (α-FeOOH) is dispersed throughout the earth's surface, and its propensity to
recrystallize in aqueous solutions determines whether this mineral is a source or sink for …