5 papers
Quantum Computations on Fusion Blanket Molten Salts
Susanta Das, Thiago J. Pinheiro Dos Santos, Subhamoy Bhowmik +14
Molten salts such as FLiBe (2LiF--BeF) are leading blanket materials for breeding and recovering tritium in fusion reactors. Predicting tritium speciation requires accurate ele…
Liquid-Vapor Phase Equilibrium in Molten Aluminum Chloride (AlCl3) Enabled by Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
Rajni Chahal, Luke D Gibson, Santanu Roy +1
Molten salts are promising candidates in numerous clean energy applications, where challenges in experimental methods limit knowledge of their safety-critical temperature-propertie…
Molecular interaction volume model of mixing enthalpy for molten salt system: An integrated calorimetry-model case study of LaCl-(LiCl-KCl)
Vitaliy G. Goncharov, William Smith, Jiahong Li +11
Calorimetric determination of enthalpies of mixing (H) of multicomponent molten salts often employs empirical models that lack parameters with clear physical interpr…
ab initio informed inelastic neutron scattering for time-resolved local dynamics in molten MgCl2
Shubhojit Banerjee, Rajni Chahal, Alexander S. Ivanov +4
Ion dynamics that drive the transport and thermophysical properties of molten salts are poorly understood due to challenges in precisely quantifying the spatial and temporal fluctu…
Transferable Deep Learning Potential Reveals Intermediate-Range Ordering Effects in LiF-NaF-ZrF4 Molten Salt
Rajni Chahal, Santanu Roy, Martin Brehm +3
LiF-NaF-ZrF4 multicomponent molten salts are promising candidate coolants for advanced clean energy systems owing to their desirable thermophysical and transport properties. Howeve…