Plutonium oxide melt structure and covalency

Wilke, Stephen K.; Benmore, Chris J.; Alderman, Oliver L. G.; Sivaraman, Ganesh; Ruehl, Matthew D.; Hawthorne, Krista L.; Tamalonis, Anthony; Andersson, David A.; Williamson, Mark A.; Weber, Richard

doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01883-3

Nat. Mater.

2024

DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01883-3

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Plutonium oxide melt structure and covalency

Stephen K. Wilke,

Chris J. Benmore,

Oliver L. G. Alderman

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Density of molten oxides measured in an aero-acoustic levitator

Wilke,

Rafferty,

Al-Rubkhi

et al. 2024

Journal of Applied Physics

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Knowing the thermophysical properties of high-temperature melts can aid the design of melt processes and validate atomic structural models, such as those used in studying glass formation. Property measurements on such melts are challenging, however, due to container-related contamination and heterogeneous nucleation. Containerless processing techniques that employ levitation can be used to avoid these obstacles. In that context, we demonstrate here the application of silhouette imaging to measure the density of molten oxides in an aero-acoustic levitation instrument (AAL). The AAL combines gas jet levitation with actively controlled acoustic positioning to enable full optical access to samples ca. 2–4 mm in diameter, which are laser beam heated and melted. The cross sections of molten drops are imaged using a monochromatic light source and narrowband-filtered camera. Melt volume is calculated from the cross sections and used to find density at several temperatures ranging 1530–1920 K, including up to 350 K of supercooling. We report densities for CaAl2O4, Ca12Al14O33, CaSiO3, their Fe2O3-bearing analogs, and 83TiO2-17RE2O3 (RE = La or Nd). These provide important benchmarks of the capabilities, measurement uncertainties, and future outlook for this technique.

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Density of molten oxides measured in an aero-acoustic levitator

Wilke,

Rafferty,

Al-Rubkhi

et al. 2024

Journal of Applied Physics

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Plutonium oxide melt structure and covalency

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