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Thorium and uranium in soil fractions and certain macromycete species in boreal forest ecosystems

Vìsnik Dnìpropetrovsʹkogo Unìversitetu: Serìâ Bìologìâ, Ekologìâ, 2012
The content of thorium (Th) and uranium (U) in fractions of soil edaphosphere, rhizosphere, rhizoplane, fungal mycelium and fruit bodies were investigated.
M. M. Vinichuk
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Phase Field Failure Modeling: Brittle‐Ductile Dual‐Phase Microstructures under Compressive Loading

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
The approach by Amor and the approach by Miehe and Zhang for asymmetric damage behavior in the phase field method for fracture are compared regarding their fitness for microcrack‐based failure modeling. The comparison is performed for the case of a dual‐phase microstructure with a brittle and a ductile constituent.
Jakob Huber, Jan Torgersen, Ewald Werner
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Multiscale multiphysics coupling analysis of UO2–SiCw accident-tolerant fuel with optimized whisker orientation

Nuclear Engineering and Technology
Doping with high thermal conductivity second-phase materials such as SiC is a promising strategy for enhancing fuel performance. This study focuses on SiC whiskers (SiCw) and evaluates the feasibility of further enhancing in-reactor fuel performance via ...
Linyuan Lu, Guoqiang Wang, Yunhao Wang, Tianxing Lan, Zhuangzhuang Ma, Jun Lin, Wanlin Li, Yajuan Zhong, Lihua Guo, Haibin Zhang   +9 more
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Introducing the Fission-Fusion Reaction Process: Using a Laser-Accelerated Th Beam to produce Neutron-Rich Nuclei towards the N=126 Waiting Point of the r Process

, 2010
We propose to produce neutron-rich nuclei in the range of the astrophysical r-process around the waiting point N=126 by fissioning a dense laser-accelerated thorium ion bunch in a thorium target (covered by a CH2 layer), where the light fission fragments
Allinger, K., Bin, J., Gross, M., Habs, D., Henig, A., Kiefer, D., Ma, W., Schreiber, J., Thirolf, P. G.   +8 more
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Ideal Molecular Sieving with a Dense MOF for Helium Upgrading with Highly Diffusion Selective Mixed Matrix Membranes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The separation of Helium gas from natural gas is challenging but highly important. MIL‐116(Ga), a “non‐porous” metal–organic framework is used as a molecular sieve to separate He from CH4. Druse‐like MIL‐116(Ga) particles are integrated into polysulfone mixed matrix membranes.
Ayisha Komal, Laura Calderón‐Rodríguez, Oksana Smirnova, Eren Grossmann, Aparna Binu Varghese, Karen Marlenne Garcia Alvarez, Andreas Schneemann, Thomas Hoyer, Ralf Wyrwa, Felix Helmut Schacher, Alexander Knebel   +10 more
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Demonstration of an All‐Optical AND Gate Mediated by Photochromic Molecules

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A logic AND gate that runs on photons is demonstrated. It relies on two spatially separated photochromic molecules that work in tandem. Abstract The realization of a photonic logic AND gate, i.e. a logic AND gate that runs on photons rather than electrons, and where all steps are controlled by light, is demonstrated. In a proof‐of‐principle experiment,
Heyou Zhang, Max Gießübel, Pankaj Dharpure, Andrea Albert, Vira Niestierkina, Paul Mulvaney, Mukundan Thelakkat, Jürgen Köhler   +7 more
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3D‐Printed Sulfur‐Derived Polymers With Controlled Architectures for Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Rheology‐guided formulation design for direct ink writing enables the fabrication of 3D sulfur copolymer cathodes with controlled architectures for lithium‐sulfur batteries. The printed electrodes exhibit multiscale porosity and high sulfur utilization, delivering enhanced electrochemical performance compared to conventional cast electrodes.
Bin Ling, Haoran Wang, Pan Yang, Rishav Agrawal, Alex R. Neale, Laurence J. Hardwick, Tom Hasell, Esther García‐Tuñón   +7 more
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Bio‐Orthogonally Crosslinked Supramolecular Polymer Bottlebrush Hydrogels for Long‐Term 3D Cell Culture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Fibrous benzenetrispeptide (BTP) hydrogels, fabricated via strain‐promoted azide‐alkyne cycloaddition (SPAAC) crosslinking, form robust, bioinert networks. These hydrogels can support 3D cell culture, where cell viability and colony growth depend on the fiber content.
Ceren C. Pihlamagi, David Pretzel, Peer Nölte, Kourosh Rezaei, Ulrich S. Schubert, Johannes C. Brendel   +5 more
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Nuclear thermionic converter [PDF]

, 1977
Efficient nuclear reactor thermionic converter units are described which can be constructed at low cost and assembled in a reactor which requires a minimum of fuel. Each converter unit utilizes an emitter rod with a fluted exterior, several fuel passages
Mondt, J. F., Phillips, W. M.
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Ferroelectricity in Antiferromagnetic Wurtzite Nitrides

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We establish MnSiN2${\rm MnSiN}_2$ and MnGeN2${\rm MnGeN}_2$ as aristotypes of a new multiferroic wurtzite family that simultaneously exhibits ferroelectricity and antiferromagnetism with altermagnetic spin splitting. By strategically substituting alkaline‐earth metals, we predict new materials with coexisting switchable polarization, spin texture, and
Steven M. Baksa, Lin‐Ding Yuan, Stephen D. Wilson, James M. Rondinelli   +3 more
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