Neutronics-thermal-hydraulics-material coupling study of lead-bismuth cooled reactor single rod based on oxidative corrosion characteristics by JI Xu, CHAI Xiang, ZHANG Lefu, LIU Xiaojing

“…Concurrently, the growth of the oxide layer on the cladding surface exacerbates the heat transfer between the cladding and the coolant, thereby influencing the thermal-hydraulic and neutron physics parameters of the core. …”
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Assembly and Irradiation Modeling of Residual Stresses in Low-Enriched Uranium Foil-Based Annular Targets for Molybdenum-99 Production by Srisharan G. Govindarajan, Brian S. Graybill, Philip F. Makarewicz, Zhentao Xie, Gary L. Solbrekken

“…This paper considers a composite cylindrical structure, with low-enriched uranium (LEU) foil enclosed between two aluminum 6061-T6 cylinders. A recess is cut all around the outer circumference of the inner tube to accommodate the LEU foil of open-cross section. …”
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Refractometric Sensing of Protein in Urine by the Photonic Crystal Fiber Biosensor in THz Regime by Md. Moshiur Rahman, Farhana Akter Mou, Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan, Mohammad Rakibul Islam

“…The sensitivity shows more than 98.5% for all the tested concentration levels due to the strategic selection of geometrical parameters and proper optimization. …”
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Ultrawide Dynamic Bandwidth Modulation of an Antiresonant Nanoweb Hollow-Core Fiber by Ricardo E. da Silva, Cristiano M. B. Cordeiro

“…These achievements lead to highly efficient, compact, and fast all-fiber sensors and modulators promising for application in pulsed fiber lasers.…”
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Designing a terahertz optical sensor based on helically twisted photonic crystal fiber for toxic gas sensing by Vahid Sharif, Hana Saberi, Hassan Pakarzadeh

“…Low-loss polymer Topas is used as the background material of cladding. The fiber is twisted 360° over 50 cm to enhance anti-resonance in the THz region. …”
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Application of Copper Indium Gallium Selenide Thin-Film Solar Technology in Green Retrofitting of Aging Residential Buildings by Fan Lu, Mijeong Kwon, Jungsik Jang

“…The quantitative assessment demonstrated that CIGS thin-film solar cells received the highest overall score (88.92), surpassing silicon-based photovoltaics (86.03), window retrofitting (88.83), and facade cladding (82.21) in all five key metrics of aesthetics, economic feasibility, safety, energy efficiency, and innovation. …”
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High‐performance sulphur dioxide sensor: Unveiling the potential of photonic crystal fibre technology by A. H. M. Iftekharul Ferdous, Md. Mynuddin, Khalid Sifulla Noor

“…This deadly gas having no tone at all with a strong aroma. Our suggested sensor is designed with heptagonal cladding along with octagonal core. …”
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Thermohydraulic Performance in SMR Reactors with Mixed Oxide (U, Th)O2 Fuel: A Computational Approach by Pedro Emanuel Moraes Santos, Mariana Cecilia Betancourt, Leorlen Yunier Rojas Mazaira, Carlos Rafael García Hernández, Dany Sanchez Dominguez, Carlos Alberto Brayner de Oliveira Lira

“…The findings reveal that MOX fuels exhibit lower maximum temperatures than UO2, suggesting a more uniform radial temperature distribution. Moreover, both the cladding and coolant temperatures remain within safe operational limits across all scenarios examined, highlighting the potential of MOX fuels to enhance the safety and efficiency of SMRs. …”
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Prediction of Flow and Temperature Distributions in a High Flux Research Reactor Using the Porous Media Approach by Shanfang Huang, Daxin Gong, Chao Li, Xiaoyu Guo, Guanbo Wang, Huaqiang Yin, Kan Wang

“…Moreover, the porous media model is compared with the exact model and found to be much more efficient than a detailed simulation of all the core components.…”
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Four-Channel Nanosecond Pulse Combination in the Non-Polarization-Maintaining Fiber System by Xinyu Wang, Qiang Shu, Qiuhui Chu, Chenxu Liu, Yuefang Yan, Jing Wen, Kegong Dong, Rumao Tao, Haoyu Zhang, Honghuan Lin, Jianjun Wang

“…The stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) and frequency dithering algorithm are introduced to stabilize the synchronization in polarizations and phases among all the channels. The system delivers an average power of ~250 W and a pulse duration of 4 ns with a combination efficiency of around 87% when the repetition rate of a single pulse is limited to 1 MHz, the polarization extinction ratio (PER) at 30 μm core diameter and 250 μm cladding diameter remains around 96%.…”
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Floral-core terahertz photonic crystal fiber bio-sensor: An exclusive approach to recognizing milk from various animal species by Khalid Sifulla Noor, A.H.M. Iftekharul Ferdous, Most. Momtahina Bani, Md. Golam Sadeque

“…The nutrient composition of different animals' milks and their respective quantities are determined by set values at the beginning and differ among the types of milk. As all of them hold the same tone, it becomes challenging to identify them. …”
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Calculation of the Optimum Cone Angle of a Confuser Used for Reversive-Jet Cleaning of Metal Surfaces against Corrosion by I. V. Kachanov, A. N. Zhuk, I. M. Shatalov, V. V. Veremenyuk, A. V. Filipchik

“…When working in such conditions, production efficiency can be achieved through all-round economy and creation of modern energyand resource-saving technologies. …”
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Forward Brillouin scattering in few-mode fibers by Elad Layosh, Elad Zehavi, Alon Bernstein, Mirit Hen, Maayan Holsblat, Ori Pearl, Avi Zadok

“…The effect has been studied in standard optical fibers since 1985, however nearly all studies have been limited to the single optical mode regime. …”
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CRONOLOGIA DE AZULEJOS HISTÓRICOS: Danos e Caracterização Química dos Revestimentos das Fachadas do Museu da Abolição no Recife, Pernambuco by Eduardo de Freitas Muniz, Gabriela de Andrade Monteiro, Henry Lavalle, Paulo Martin Souto Maior, Ravena Barbosa de Souza, Renata Alves Lucena

“…From these images and administrative documents of the institution, we inquired which tiles were old and which were more recent, because no technical record of the intervention in the façades of this building was found. Although all the tiles retain the aesthetic pattern of the nineteenth century, photographs indicate interventions in some tile’s facades that have been replaced by replicas. …”
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Wavelength-accurate and wafer-scale process for nonlinear frequency mixers in thin-film lithium niobate by C. J. Xin, Shengyuan Lu, Jiayu Yang, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Boris Desiatov, Letícia S. Magalhães, Soumya S. Ghosh, Erin McGee, Dylan Renaud, Nicholas Achuthan, Arseniy Zvyagintsev, David Barton III, Neil Sinclair, Marko Lončar

“…However, the broader adoption of TFLN-based devices that rely on all-optical nonlinearities have been limited by the sensitivity of quasi-phase matching (QPM), realized via ferroelectric poling, to fabrication tolerances. …”
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Physical Characteristic and Design Logics of Integrated Fast Reactor by HUO Xingkai, SONG Yingyun, MO Bu, FENG Wei, HU Yun

“…The metal fuel is also featured in its high thermal expansion coefficient, high heat conductivity and low operation temperature, all of which improve the passive safety of the core. …”
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Micro-structures and dry-sliding friction/wear performances of novel AlCrFeNiMo0.5Bx high entropy alloy-ceramic composite coatings by Hui Liang, Jingzhuo Zhang, Jinxin Hou, Jingchang Sun, Jianhong Liu, Jiawen Liu, Xu Han, Jiani Tan, Li Jiang, Xiaocong Li, Zhiqiang Cao

“…The hardness of the AlCrFeNiMo0.5Bx coatings was all higher than that of the Q235 steel substrate, and showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing with the increase of B content. …”
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Corrosion Behavior of a Novel Low-chromium Alumina-forming Austenitic Stainless Steel in Supercritical Water by GAO Yang1, GUO Xianglong1, ZHOU Zhangjian2, ZHANG Lefu1

“…Therefore, AFAs have merged as candidate materials for cladding materials for supercritical water-cooled reactor (SCWR). …”

Unveiling the third dimension of glass by Faidra Oikonomopoulou

“…Only in the last decades did we discover the structural potential of glass and started to use it, besides as a cladding material, also for load-bearing applications thanks to its high compressive strength. …”
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La gestion de l’eau à Bibracte (Saône-et-Loire), avant et après la Conquête romaine by Laetitia Borau

“…The settlement of Bibracte was chosen for several reasons. First of all, during the Iron Age Bibracte was one of the main oppidum in Gaul. …”
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