Testing radiation resistance without using a nuclear reactor

  • Matheus Araujo Tunes
  • Stephen Donnelly
  • Jonathan Hinks

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Physicist Matheus Tunes is completing his doctoral studies at Huddersfield, supervised by Miami's Professor Stephen Donnelly and Dr. Jonathan Hinks, having previously graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP) – the major institution of higher learning and research in Brazil. This has helped establish a burgeoning connection between the UK and Brazilian universities.

The tests at Miami showed that titanium nitride is not a suitable material for coating nuclear fuel. But the new article tells how doctoral researcher Matheus Tunes is using the transmission electron microscopy facilities at Huddersfield to analyse other  that have promise in the field of radiation damage protection. These include high entropy alloys and MAX phases (metals with carbon and silicon).

Period3 Apr 2019 → 5 Apr 2019

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  • TitleTesting Radiation Resistance Without Using a Nuclear Reactor
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletAzo Optics - azooptics.com
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date5/04/19
    DescriptionThe tests at Miami showed that titanium nitride is not a suitable material for coating nuclear fuel. But the new article tells how doctoral researcher Matheus Tunes is using the transmission electron microscopy facilities at Huddersfield to analyse other materials that have promise in the field of radiation damage protection. These include high entropy alloys and MAX phases (metals with carbon and silicon).
    URLhttps://www.azooptics.com/News.aspx?newsID=24230
    PersonsMatheus Araujo Tunes, Stephen Donnelly, Jonathan Hinks
  • TitleTesting radiation resistance without using a nuclear reactor
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletphys.org
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date3/04/19
    DescriptionPhysicist Matheus Tunes is completing his doctoral studies at Huddersfield, supervised by Miami's Professor Stephen Donnelly and Dr. Jonathan Hinks, having previously graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP) – the major institution of higher learning and research in Brazil. This has helped establish a burgeoning connection between the UK and Brazilian universities.

    The tests at Miami showed that titanium nitride is not a suitable material for coating nuclear fuel. But the new article tells how doctoral researcher Matheus Tunes is using the transmission electron microscopy facilities at Huddersfield to analyse other materials that have promise in the field of radiation damage protection. These include high entropy alloys and MAX phases (metals with carbon and silicon).
    URLhttps://phys.org/news/2019-04-resistance-nuclear-reactor.html
    PersonsMatheus Araujo Tunes, Stephen Donnelly, Jonathan Hinks
  • TitleTesting radiation resistance without using a nuclear reactor
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletProcess and Control Today
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date3/04/19
    DescriptionOne candidate was titanium nitride and this was tested at the Miami facility by Matheus Tunes, Osmane Camara, Dr Graeme Greaves and São Paulo doctoral researcher Felipe Carneiro, who is supervised by Professor Schön. The USP journal article describes how the facilities at Huddersfield enabled the radiation resistance of titanium nitride to be tested in a transmission electron microscope coupled to a particle accelerator.
    URLwww.pandct.com/media/shownews.asp?ID=53232
    PersonsMatheus Araujo Tunes, Stephen Donnelly, Jonathan Hinks