| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Materials and Chemistry for Molten Salt Systems
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| Presentation Title |
B-5: Exploring the Behaviour of Metallic Nanoparticles at the Interface with Molten Salt: A Multimodal Approach |
| Author(s) |
Ankita Mohanty, Yuxiang Peng, Kaifeng Zheng, Bobby Layne , Xiaoyang Liu , Kazuhiro Iwamatsu, Ellie Kim , Phillip Halstenberg , Mingyuan Ge, Denis Leshchev , Xianghui Xiao , Sheng Dai, Eli Stavitski , Daniel Olds, James Wishart , Anatoly I. Frenkel , Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Ankita Mohanty |
| Abstract Scope |
Gaining a comprehensive understanding of how materials behave at molten salt interfaces is of utmost importance for the advancement of sustainable energy solutions. Prior work on the effects of molten salts on the initial stages of reactions involving metal microparticles showed that due to the large dimensions of these particles, the analysis observed a mixture of effects occurring at the particle surface and within its bulk. Here, we use metallic nanoparticles specifically in the range of 30-100 nm to understand the transformations taking place at the particle-salt interface. Through this approach, we aim to fully characterize the structure and transformation kinetics of all species. Our synchrotron X-ray multimodal approach combines X-ray nano-imaging, absorption spectroscopy, and diffraction/scattering to study structural changes of the nanoparticles during interaction with the salt. This work is part of the Molten Salts in Extreme Environments EFRC, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Nuclear Materials, Nanotechnology, Characterization |