Determination of the solubility of metals in lithium

Clustering of Fe atoms in liquid Li and its effect on the viscosity of liquid Li

“…The calculated mixing enthalpies of Li-Fe (solute) dilute solution (320 Fe atoms are randomly inserted in liquid Li samples containing 30 930 atoms) are presented in figure 3 against temperature. It demonstrates that in the whole temperature range the mixing enthalpies are positive, meaning the solubility of Fe in liquid Li is very low, which qualitatively agrees with the experimental result [24], therefore the observed Fe atoms' clustering is reasonable. Interestingly, as temperature increases the mixing enthalpy increases roughly linearly, which suggests that high temperature is beneficial to Fe atoms' clustering.…”

“…The samples used to simulate the clustering processes of Fe atoms were constructed by replacing 320 Li atoms randomly with Fe atoms in liquid Li samples containing 16 000 atoms built at 500 K, 600 K, 700 K, 800 K and 900 K, respectively. While we should state that the Fe concentrations in these simulations are much higher than that obtained in experiments [24], and adopting such a high concentration is done to accelerate the clustering process which is not normally observed in typical MD simulation time with low Fe concentration about equaling the saturation solubility obtained in experiments. The prepared samples were relaxed 1.2 ns with NVT ensemble to investigate the clustering process of the Fe atoms.…”

Fabrication of nitrogen trapping test loop for IFMIF-EVEDA

“…Pure iron, stainless steel (S.S.) type 304 and 316 can be used. Pure nickel is not suitable because of its solubility in lithium [7]. Pure chrome is also unsuitable because, as reported by Sakurai et al, it reacts with nitrogen in lithium to form a complex nitride [8].…”

Effect of Impurities on the Level Density of an Electron Gas in a Strong Magnetic Field

“…8 and Table I for the self-energy part 1: or its imaginary part T. In the approximation of Bychkov,5 ) f is the scattering matrix of an electron gas when no external field is applied. Bychkov replaced f by a constant and hence the Table I It is pointed out at the end of § 2 that the divergence of the level density at the Landau levels will not be removed by Kahn's 2 ) approximation.…”