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Thermal Jamming of Ions in the Superionic State of UO2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2018

Dillon Sanders  and
Jacob Eapen
Dillon Sanders*
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC27695, U.S.A.
Jacob Eapen
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC27695, U.S.A.
*
*(Email: dhsander@ncsu.edu)
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Abstract

The oxygen ions in the high temperature superionic state of uranium dioxide (UO2) are known to be in an arrested or jammed state, exhibiting characteristic features of jammed kinetics such as low dimensional string-like ion hopping and dynamical heterogeneity (DH). This thermally-jammed state entails a configurational entropic cost. Using atomistic simulations and the 2PT method, we compute the solid-like (vibrational) and hard sphere-like (configurational) contributions to the total entropy across a temperature range of 1500 K to 2800 K that envelop both the onset of superionic conduction (2000 K) and the second order λ-transition (2610 K). To properly account for the thermally jammed state of the ions, we use an equation of state that is appropriate for the metastable fluid branch. Our simulation results are in excellent agreement with the entropy data extracted from specific heat experiments with a mean error of less than 2%.

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superconductingnuclear materialsU
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MRS Advances , Volume 3 , Issue 31: Energy and Sustainability , 2018 , pp. 1777 - 1781
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2018 

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