Rare Earth and Actinide Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2024) | Viewed by 3298
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal analysis and calorimetry; high temperature diffraction; rare earth oxides
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Interests: thermochemistry; rare-earths; synthesis; structure; nuclear materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ancient Greek philosophers used the term “earth” to refer to all solid matter—materials—of the Universe. After two millennia, the term has survived in references to alkaline earth and rare earth (RE) groups of elements in the periodic table. The latter commonly includes lanthanides, yttrium, and (arguably) scandium. While most abundant RE elements (Sc, Y, La, and Ce) are indeed rarer than most abundant alkaline earth metals (Ca and Mg), rare earth are critical for the creation materials used by modern society. Indeed, they span the applications from permanent magnets and superconductors to catalysts, ceramics, and environmental barrier coatings. Among actinides, only thorium was widely used in material design outside of the nuclear field. The chemistry of rare earth elements and the structure of their compounds is often used as a guide to actinides; lanthanides are formed as fission products and play a role in the design and reprocessing of nuclear materials. This Special Issue is devoted to rare earth and actinides. Expert submissions related to experimental research and computations on rare earth and actinide materials will be considered for publication.
Dr. Sergey V. Ushakov
Dr. Tamilarasan Subramani
Dr. Lei Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rare earth
- lanthanides
- actinides
- nuclear materials
- synthesis
- structure
- thermochemistry
- magnetic properties
- phase equilibria
- calculation of phase diagram
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