The aim of this paper is to present the mechanical properties of tungsten laminate pipes made of tungsten foil and to discuss their use in innovative high temperature energy conversion systems.Tungsten is the metal with the highest melting point of all metals and would therefore be an excellent fit for high temperature applications. But tungsten has one major drawback which is its low fracture toughness at room temperature (RT) or its high brittle-to-ductile transition 2 temperature (BDTT). However, one of the extraordinary properties of tungsten is that by cold working the BDTT can be shifted to lower temperatures. At the extreme, this results in a tungsten foil with a BDTT below -120°C combined with a RT fracture toughness of 70 MPa m 1/2 .By rolling up and joining a tungsten foil, tungsten laminate pipes can be synthesized that can dissipate at least 20 J in a Charpy impact test at RT and survive a burst test at RT at 1000 bar without any residual damage. The technical maturity of these W laminate pipes is approved by high heat flux tests performed at the Plataforma Solar de Almería, Spain, as well as at the

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The local structure and lattice dynamics in cubic Y2O3 were studied at the Y K-edge by X-ray absorption spectroscopy in the temperature range from 300 to 1273 K. The temperature dependence of the extended X-ray absorption fine structure was successfully interpreted using classical molecular dynamics and a novel reverse Monte Carlo method, coupled with the evolutionary algorithm. The obtained results allowed the temperature dependence of the yttria atomic structure to be followed up to ∼6 Å and to validate two force-field models.