Non-invasive detection of hazardous materials with a thermal-to-epithermal neutron station: a feasibility study towards practical application

M Silarski, K Dziedzic-Kocurek, K Drużbicki… - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
The growing scale of the devastation that even a single terrorist attack can cause requires
more effective methods for the detection of hazardous materials. In particular, there are no …

Investigation of the Dynamic Behaviour of H2 and D2 in a Kinetic Quantum Sieving System

D Yang, S Rochat, M Krzystyniak, A Kulak… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Porous organic cages (POCs) are nanoporous materials composed of discrete molecular
units that have uniformly distributed functional pores. The intrinsic porosity of these …

Hydrogen spillover in tungsten oxide bronzes as observed by broadband neutron spectroscopy

E Lalik, SF Parker, G Irvine, I da Silva, MJ Gutmann… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hydrogen spillover is an elusive process, and its characterization, using experimental
probes and ab initio modeling, poses a serious challenge. In this work, the nuclear quantum …

Nuclear quantum dynamics in Hexamethylenetetramine and its deuterated counterpart: A DFT-augmented neutron study

M Krzystyniak, MJ Gutmann, K Refson… - Physica …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite being one of the most thoroughly characterised molecular crystals,
hexamethylenetetramine (HMT) and its deuterated counterpart (DHMT), are still not fully …

Interplay between local structure and nuclear dynamics in tungstic acid: a neutron scattering study

E Lalik, K Drużbicki, G Irvine, M Gutmann… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We provide an exhaustive characterization of structural properties and nuclear dynamics in
tungstic acid (WO3· H2O). To this end, we employ neutron and X-ray diffraction (ND and …

Proton dynamics in a spark-plasma sintered BaZr 0.7 Ce 0.2 Y 0.1 O 3− δ proton conductor investigated by quasi-elastic neutron scattering

J Wallis, A Kruth, F Demmel - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The thermally activated proton dynamics in the perovskite lattice of spark-plasma sintered
BaZr0. 7Ce0. 2Y0. 1O3− δ was investigated by quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) and …

Local structure and dynamics of tungsten oxide-based glasses: insights from concurrent neutron diffraction and Compton scattering

M Krzystyniak, K Drużbicki, I Tolnai… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, following our previous work on molybdate glasses, we employ a combination of
neutron diffraction and neutron Compton scattering, augmented by ab initio harmonic lattice …

[PDF][PDF] Hydrogen Isotope Separation Using Porous Materials

D Yang - 2024 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
Hydrogen (H) and its stable heavy isotopes deuterium (D) and tritium (T) play important roles
in clean energy supply, from direct combustion to future energy development (nuclear …