Nuclear Materials and Their Derivatives: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties, Second Edition
A Special Issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944) belonging to the section "Materials Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2026 | Viewed by 731
Editors
Interests: actinides; superconductivity; thermoelectric; first-principles; neutron scattering; topological states
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Interests: actinides; uranium; plutonium; density functional theory
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nuclear materials and their derivatives are important for nuclear energy and related applications. Developing and optimizing nuclear materials has greatly facilitated the development of fusion reactors, fission reactors, and similar environments, including neutron sources. Structure, phase transition, stability, mechanical and thermodynamic properties, lattice dynamic properties, neutron and charged particle radiation effects of the entire fuel cycle, actinides and their compounds under different external conditions need careful investigation. Many related synthesis methods and simulation techniques are in development. Deep physical insights and theoretical understanding have greatly promoted further developments and applications of nuclear materials.
This Second Edition is a continuation of the Special Issue on “Nuclear Materials and Their Derivatives: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties”, which aims to provide a unique international forum for researchers working in nuclear materials to report their latest endeavors in advancing this field, including new pristine nuclear materials, methods used to improve nuclear materials and their performance, theoretical understanding and physical insights into nuclear materials and their derivatives, synthesis and structural characterization of nuclear materials, computational discovery of new nuclear materials, physical and chemical properties of nuclear materials, etc.
Dr. Bao-Tian Wang
Prof. Dr. Tao Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nuclear materials
- actinides
- nuclear fuel
- nuclear reactor
- 5f electron
- strong correlation
- mechanical property
- thermodynamic property
- lattice dynamics
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