Morphological Evolution and Dealloying During Corrosion of Ni20Cr (wt.%) in Molten FLiNaK Salts

HL Chan, E Romanovskaia, SH Mills… - Journal of The …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The dealloying corrosion behavior of the FCC Ni20Cr (wt%) in molten LiF-NaF-KF (FLiNaK)
salts at 600 C under varying applied potentials was investigated. Using in-operando …

An In Situ, multi-electrode electrochemical method to assess the open circuit potential corrosion of Cr in unpurified molten FLiNaK

E Romanovskaia, HL Chan, V Romanovski, F Garfias… - Corrosion …, 2023 - Elsevier
An in situ electrochemical method to investigate the time-dependent spontaneous corrosion
of pure Cr in an unpurified LiF-NaF-KF eutectic salt at 600° C was developed. A multi …

An Experimental High-Throughput to High-Fidelity Study Towards Discovering Al–Cr Containing Corrosion-Resistant Compositionally Complex Alloys

D Sur, EF Holcombe, WH Blades, EA Anber… - High Entropy Alloys & …, 2023 - Springer
Compositionally complex alloys hold the promise of simultaneously attaining superior
combinations of properties, such as corrosion resistance, light-weighting, and strength …

Mechanistic study of moisture corrosion of FeCr alloys in molten salts by ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations

A Schneider, D Andersson, Y Zhang - Communications Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Molten salts are promising for various energy applications including fuel and solar cells and
nuclear energy. These applications face a common challenge: corrosion of structural …

Uncovering accurate values of the polarization resistance in molten fluorides using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

HL Chan, H Singh, V Romanovski… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
High-temperature operation and the presence of oxidizing impurities in molten chloride and
fluoride salts pose significant corrosion risks to structural alloys in molten salt nuclear …

High-Throughput falling ball viscometer for measuring High-Temperature molten salts

A Levy, Y Zhang, H Yan, A Wadehra, Y Zhong… - … Engineering and Design, 2024 - Elsevier
The demand for clean energy production and storage has increased interest in molten salt
technologies, including Molten Salt Reactors (MSR). Understanding of how molten salts …

Deciphering when Metal Corrosion is Spontaneous in Molten Fluorides Using Potential-Activity Diagrams

HL Chan, JR Scully - Corrosion, 2023 - meridian.allenpress.com
The work identifies the conditions for thermodynamically favored spontaneous metal
corrosion using potential-activity diagrams tailored for high-temperature molten fluorides …

Dealloying of Cold-Worked Ni-20Cr (wt.%) Alloys In Molten LiF-NaF-KF Salts

HL Chan, E Romanovskaia, SH Mills… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
The corrosion dealloying behavior of cold-worked (CW) Ni20Cr alloy (wt.%) was studied in
molten LiF-NaF-KF salts at 600 C equal to a homologous temperature (TH) of 0.522. Alloys …

(General Student Poster Award Winner, 3rd Place) Designing and Evaluating Microelectrodes for Molten Salt Corrosion Electrochemistry

HL Chan, H Singh, V Romanovski… - Electrochemical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Due to the coupling of high temperature operation (> 500° C) and propensity to contain
oxidizing impurities (eg, moisture, metallic cations), corrosion of structural alloys in molten …

Elucidating the Mechanism for Coarsening of a Dealloyed Microstructure in a Molten Salt by Combining Phase-Field Modeling and in situ Tomography

EJ Hendrix, WB Andrews, X Liu… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
Alloys corroding in molten salt have been observed to form bicontinuous, nanoporous
microstructures via dealloying, which subsequently undergo coarsening due to facile …