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H2 Generation by the 10B(n,alpha)7Li Reaction in High Temperature Water

July 4, 2023
Author(s)
Alan Keith Thompson, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, Steven Guerin, David Bartels, Cameron Goodwin, Sangho Nam
H2 produced in water from the 10B(n,α)7Li fission reaction has been measured up to 300 oC. Thermal energy neutrons from the Rhode Island Nuclear Science Center's 2 MW reactor interact with boric acid-containing water in temperature-controlled high-pressure

Procedure Overhaul at the NIST Center for Neutron Research

June 19, 2023
Author(s)
Brandy Frie, David Griffin, James R. Whipple
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research operates a 20 MW research reactor whose primary purpose is to produce cold neutrons for material sciences experiments. On February 3rd, 2021, a fuel element was unlatched

What limits the voltage of GaAs photovoltaic devices under low indoor light?

June 19, 2023
Author(s)
Behrang Hamadani, Margaret Stevens, Matthew Lumb, Kenneth Schmieder
The external radiative efficiency of a photovoltaic device is a useful metric to compare different photovoltaic technologies and material systems. However, under low-intensity indoor lighting, a particular open-circuit voltage dependence arises that cannot

Alternative Reflectors for The NIST Neutron Source

June 18, 2023
Author(s)
Yaniv Shaposhnik, Osman Celikten, Jeremy Cook, Abdullah Weiss, Dagistan Sahin
A conceptual design of a replacement reactor at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), referred to as the NIST Neutron Source (NNS), is underway in collaboration with the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The NNS reactor design favors the production of

Lessons Learned on NBSR Licensing Actions

June 18, 2023
Author(s)
Dagistan Sahin, Thomas H. Newton, Steven Dewey, Osman Celikten, Paul C. Brand, Lap-Yan Cheng
After the incident in February 2021, NBSR implemented three license amendment requests (LAR) to allow the restart of the reactor. The first LAR was to modify previous latch verification requirements in the Technical Specifications (TS). Originally TS

Semiconductor thermal and electrical properties decoupled by localized phonon resonances

May 10, 2023
Author(s)
Bryan Spann, Joel Weber, Matthew Brubaker, Todd E. Harvey, LINA YANG, Hossein Honarvar, Chia-Nien Tsai, Andrew Treglia, MINHYEA LEE, MAHMOUD HUSSEIN, Kris A. Bertness
Thermoelectric materials convert heat into electricity through thermally driven charge transport in solids or vice versa for cooling. To compete with conventional energy-conversion technologies, a thermoelectric material must possess the properties of both

Modeling Approach for the Design of the NIST Neutron Source

April 16, 2023
Author(s)
Abdullah Weiss, Osman Celikten, Anil Gurgen, Joy Shen, Dagistan Sahin, Yaniv Shaposhnik
The NIST Neutron Source, or NNS, is a proposed new research reactor at the NIST Center for Neutron Research to replace the currently operational, but aging, National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR). The NNS is currently in the pre-conceptual design

Pre-Conceptual Design of the NIST Neutron Source

April 16, 2023
Author(s)
Dagistan Sahin, Osman Celikten, Jeremy Cook, Abdullah Weiss, Thomas Newton, David Diamond, Charles F. Majkrzak, Hubert King, Joy Shen, Anil Gurgen, Lap-Yan Cheng, Peter Kohut, Cihang Lu, Athi Varuttamaseni
The National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR), a 20 MW thermal power Material Test Reactor (MTR), is located at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), providing a safe and reliable neutron source for the thousands of visiting U.S. and international

The Statistic and Deterministic Kettle

April 16, 2023
Author(s)
Yaniv Shaposhnik, Abdullah Weiss, Dagistan Sahin
In some accident scenarios, a nuclear reactor could be assumed to be similar to a kettle. Namely, the water inside the core, or in this case in the kettle, is experiencing heating, and at some point, for a non-boiling reactor, the safety boundary may be

Prediction of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Properties for Liquid Hydrocarbons from Hydrotreating Biomass Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis Derived Organic Intermediates

April 11, 2023
Author(s)
Suphat Watanasiri, Kristiina Iisa, Eugene Paulechka, Earl Christensen, Chris Muzny, Abhijit Dutta
Catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) of wood, woody residues, and agricultural waste has the potential to produce organic liquid intermediates that can be hydroprocessed to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). In this article we present results of property

A Goldilocks Approach to Water Management: Amphiphilic Porous Transport Layers for Unitized Reversible Fuel Cells

March 14, 2023
Author(s)
Siddharth Komini Babu, Abdurrahman Yilmaz, Md Aman Uddin, Jacob LaManna, Elias Baltic, David Jacobson, Ugur Pasaogullari, Jacob Spendelow
Unitized reversible fuel cells (URFCs) are a promising option for both local and grid-scale energy storage, and could help facilitate the deployment of intermittent renewable power sources. URFCs consist of a single cell that operates in both fuel cell (FC

Quantitative relationships between film morphology, charge carrier dynamics, and photovoltaic performance in bulk-heterojunction binary vs. ternary acceptor blends

February 7, 2023
Author(s)
Weigang Zhu, Guoping Li, Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Natalia Powers-Riggs, Leighton Jones, Eliot Gann, R Joseph Kline, Andrew Herzing, Jenna Logsdon, Lucas Flagg, Charlotte Stern, Ryan Young, Kevin Kohlstedt, George Schatz, Dean DeLongchamp, Michael Wasielewski, Ferdinand Melkonyan, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin Marks
Addressing pertinent and perplexing questions regarding why nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) promote higher power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) than traditional fullerenes and how photoactive bulk heterojunction (BHJ) film morphology, charge photogeneration