ToF-SIMS in material research: A view from nanoscale hydrogen detection

B Paudel, JA Dhas, Y Zhou, MJ Choi, DJ Senor… - Materials Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrogen in materials has attracted tremendous interest as its incorporation leads to
significant alterations in nanoscale structure, composition, and chemistry, impacting …

In Situ Recombination of Elements in Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries to Recover High-Value γ-LiAlO2 and LiAl5O8

Z Huang, R Qiu, K Lin, J Ruan, Z Xu - Environmental Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recovering valuable materials from spent lithium-ion batteries is an important task because
of the asymmetry in resource distribution, supply, and demand around the world. A lithium …

Computational modelling of adsorption and diffusion properties of CO 2 and CH 4 in ZIF-8 for gas separation applications: a density functional theory approach

HP Paudel, W Shi, D Hopkinson, JA Steckel… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) interaction with different gas
molecules is crucial when ZIF-8 is used in gas separation. Computational studies based on …

[HTML][HTML] SurfFlow: high-throughput surface energy calculations for arbitrary crystals

F Yalcin, M Wolloch - Computational Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
We introduce SurfFlow, an open-source high-throughput workflow package designed for
automated first-principles calculations of surface energies in arbitrary crystals. Our package …

Theoretical study of the electronic, thermodynamic, and thermo-conductive properties of γ-LiAlO2 with 6Li isotope substitutions for tritium production

Y Duan, DC Sorescu, W Jiang, DJ Senor - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Lithium aluminate has attracted researchers' interests due to its wide applications. The
structural, electronic, optical, lattice phonon thermodynamic, and thermo-conductive …

Probing alloying effects of rare earth and transition metal on surface energy and work function of ZrO2: A First-principles study

ZX Li, W Wang, GC Gu, ZY Chen, ZJ Han, SB Xia… - Surfaces and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lowering work function (Φ) is considered to be an effective pathway to activate electron
transpiration cooling (ETC) thermal mechanism to solve the thermal barrier problem of …

Probing the structural and optical properties of Eu-doped LiAl5O8 using X-ray absorption and hard X-ray excited optical luminescence

AJS Silva, IS Carvalho, PAM Nascimento… - Journal of Solid State …, 2024 - Elsevier
X-ray absorption and hard X-ray excited optical luminescence were used to probe the
structural and optical properties of LiAl 5 O 8 doped with different Eu concentrations …

First-principles study of the surface properties of LiAl5O8: Stability and tritiated water formation

T Jia, DJ Senor, Y Duan - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
LiAl 5 O 8 is an important secondary phase of γ-LiAlO 2 ceramics in tritium (3 H, T)-
producing burnable absorber rods (TPBARs), present in small quantities in the as-fabricated …

Theoretical Investigation of the CO2 Capture Properties of γ-LiAlO2 and α-Li5AlO4

Y Duan - Micro and Nanosystems, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Aims: The aim is to develop effective CO2 sorbent materials for fighting global climate
change. Background: CO2 is one of the major combustion products which once released …

Isotope‐specific analysis of neutron‐irradiated lithium aluminate ceramics by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

H Cho, IE Burgeson, SR Adami… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of neutron irradiation on lithium aluminate ceramics and the transport and
incorporation of tritium into surrounding components are primary concerns in the …