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 …

Crystal structure and magnetism of actinide oxides: A review

BK Rai, A Bretaña, G Morrison… - Reports on Progress …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The consequences of 5f electrons in the actinide elements are as interesting as they are
complex, with actinide systems displaying dual nature of 5f states (itinerant-localized) …

Temperature-dependent phonon lifetimes and thermal conductivity of silicon by inelastic neutron scattering and ab initio calculations

DS Kim, O Hellman, N Shulumba, CN Saunders… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Inelastic neutron scattering on a single crystal of silicon was performed at temperatures from
100 to 1500 K. These experimental data were reduced to obtain phonon spectral intensity at …

Phonon Thermal Transport in via Self-Consistent Perturbation Theory

S Zhou, E **ao, H Ma, K Gofryk, C Jiang, ME Manley… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Computing thermal transport from first-principles in UO 2 is complicated due to the
challenges associated with Mott physics. Here, we use irreducible derivative approaches to …

Indications of flat bands driving the δ to α volume collapse of plutonium

N Harrison, GL Chappell… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
On cooling from the melt, plutonium (Pu) undergoes a series of structural transformations
accompanied by a≈ 28% reduction in volume from its δ phase to its α phase at low …

Capturing the ground state of uranium dioxide from first principles: Crystal distortion, magnetic structure, and phonons

S Zhou, H Ma, E **ao, K Gofryk, C Jiang, ME Manley… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Uranium dioxide (UO 2) remains a formidable challenge for first-principles approaches due
to the complex interplay among spin-orbit coupling, Mott physics, magnetic ordering, and …

Superexchange Ferromagnetic Coupling and Thermodynamic Features of the La2FeCoO6 Semiconductor

CED Toro, KAM Pulido, JA Rodríguez… - Journal of Low …, 2022 - Springer
Ab initio calculations of the electronic and thermodynamic properties for the oxide
ferrocobaltite of the perovskite-type La2FeCoO6 are reported. The calculations of the band …

Annealing of the Raman defect peaks in He-implanted UO2

L Desgranges, A Canizares, P Simon - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
The exploitation of the data acquired by Raman spectroscopy on UO 2 related materials
requires the understanding of the so-called defect peaks. To do so, we measured the …

Anisotropy in cubic caused by electron-lattice interactions

L Paolasini, D Chaney, A Bosak, GH Lander… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Despite many years of research, the full complexity of the electron-lattice interactions in UO
2 is not fully understood. We present x-ray inelastic scattering at low temperature showing …

A comparative analysis of the phonon properties in UO2 using the Boltzmann transport equation coupled with DFT+ U and empirical potentials

E Torres, I CheikNjifon, TP Kaloni, J Pencer - Computational Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
The vibrational and thermal properties of UO 2 are determined by the solution of the
Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) for phonons. The BTE approach relies on interatomic …