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Surface properties of all-inorganic halide perovskites play a crucial role in determining optoelectronic performance of these materials. We investigate the surface energies and electronic structures of cubic CsPbBr3 surfaces systematically...

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In recent years, a new family of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides and/or carbonitrides labeled MXenes, have greatly attracted the attention of researchers. Due to unusual hydrophilicity, electrical conductivity, flexibility,...

Several countries reprocess their nuclear spent fuel using the Purex process to recover U and Pu as MOX fuel. The high level radioactive waste (HLW) produced during this reprocessing is a complex mixture containing both radioactive (fission products, minor actinides) and non-radioactive elements. Since HLW shows high rate heat release and contains some long half-life and biologically toxic radionuclide, its treatment and disposal technology is complex, difficult and high cost. HLW treatment and disposal become a worldwide challenge and research focus. In order to minimize the potential long-term impact of HLW, studies on enhanced chemical separation processes of long-lived radionuclides are in progress. Two options are then envisaged for these separated radionuclides: (a) transmutation into short-lived or non-radioactive elements, (b) immobilization in highly durable ceramic matrix instead of borosilicate glass. In this paper, we briefly review the composition, structure, processing and product properties of some ceramic candidates for inert matrix fuels (IMF) and the immobilization of high level radioactive waste.

The influence of surface energies on line resolution in screen printing was studied in this paper. Ink wettability on surfaces is decreased by decreasing the surface energies of substrates-the reduction in wettability improves the line resolution. For such high surface-energy substrates as ceramics, the effective means to improve the line resolution is to use high thixotropic inks. On the other hand, for low surface energy polymer substrates, the line resolution can be heightened by increasing the surface energies of inks. If the critical surface tension of a substrate is lower than the surface energy of inks, good line resolution can be achieved even though low viscosity inks were used. The use of low viscosity inks has quite a lot of advantages.

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