Publications

  1. Developing Waste Forms for Transuranic Elements: Quaternary Neptunium Fluorides of the Type NaxMNp6F30 (M = Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Al, Ga) Travis K. Deason, Gregory Morrison, Amir Mofrad, Hunter B. Tisdale, Jake Amoroso, David DiPrete, Gary Was, Kai Sun, Theodore M. Besmann, and Hans-Conrad zur Loye, J. Am. Chem. Soc. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c10669

  2. Thermodynamic Assessment of CrCl2 with NaCl–KCl–MgCl2–UCl3–UCl4 for Molten Chloride Reactor Corrosion Modeling, Jacob A. Yingling, Mina Aziziha, Juliano Schorne-Pinto, Jorge Paz Soldan Palma, Johnathan C. Ard, Ronald E. Booth, Clara M. Dixon, and Theodore M. Besmann, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2023, 6, 5868−5882. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.3c00306

  3. Thermodynamic Measurements and Assessments for the LiCl-NaCl-KCl-UCl3 systems,J.A. Yingling, J. Schorne-Pinto, M. Aziziha, J.C. Ard, A.M. Mofrad, M.S. Christian, C.M. Dixon, T.M. Besmann, J. Chem. Thermo., 179 (2023) 106974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jct.2022.106974

  4. Flux crystal growth of rubidium–iron silicates and germanates and their ion-exchange using alkali nitrate salts, Mohammad Usman, Matthew S. Christian, Gregory Morrisona, Mark D. Smith, Weiguo Zhang, Theodore M. Besmann, P. Shiv Halasyamanic, Hans-Conrad zur Loye, Solid State Sciences 132 106995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2022.106995

  5. Thermodynamic Assessments or Reassessments of 30 Pseudo-Binary and -Ternary Salt Systems, Johnathan C. Ard, Juliano Schorne-Pinto, Mina Aziziha, Jacob A. Yingling, Kaitlin E. Johnson, Clara M. Dixon, Theodore M. Besmann, J. Chem. Thermodynamics 177 (2023) 106931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jct.2022.106931

  6. Development and Application of a Thermochemical Database (MSTDB-TC) for Modeling Corrosion In Molten Salt Reactors, Theodore M. Besmann, Jacob A. Yingling, Johnathan C. Ard, Matthew S. Christian, Amir M. Mofrad, Juliano Schorne-Pinto, Mahmoud A. A. Aslani, Proceedings of the 20th International Environmental Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems, paper ED2021-17137, Association for Materials Protection and Performance, July 18–21, 2022, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA.

  7. Thermodynamic Assessment of Lithium Halide Reciprocal Salt Systems for Energy Applications, Mina Aziziha, Juliano Schorne-Pinto, Jacob A. Yingling, Clara M. Dixon, Johnathan C. Ard, Mahmoud A. A. Aslani, Amir M. Mofrad, and Theodore M. Besmann, J. Mol. Liq., 364 (2022) 119973. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2022.119973

  8. Modeling Metallic Halide Local Structures in Salt Melts Using a Genetic Algorithm
    Matthew Christian, Timothy Lynch, Juliano Schorne-Pinto, Amir Mofrad, Nancy Birkner, Kyle Brinkman, Wilson Chiu, Theodore Besmann, J. Phys. Chem. C, 126 22, (2022) 9239-9247. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c00747

  9. Roadmap for thermal property measurements of Molten Salt Reactor systems, J. McMurray, K. Johnson, C. Agca, D. Holcomb, L. Qualls, B. Betzler, D. Kropaczek, T. Besmann, N. Ezell, ORNL Report, March 2020, ORNL/SPR-2020/1865.

  10. TAF-ID: an international thermodynamic database for nuclear fuels applications, C. Guéneau, N. Dupin, L. Kjellqvist, E. Geiger, M. Kurata, S. Gossé, E. Corcoran, A. Quaini, R. Hania, A.L. Smith, M.H.A. Piro, T. Besmann, P.E.A. Turchi, J.C. Dumas, M.J. Welland, T. Ogata, B.O. Lee, J.R. Kennedy, C. Adkins, M. Bankhead, D. Costa, Calphad, 72,  (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.calphad.2020.102212

  11. Phase stability of U5Si4, USi, and U2Si3 in the uranium-silicon system, Ulrich, Tashiema L.; Vogel, Sven C.; Lopes, Denise A.; Kocevski, Vancho; White, Joshua T.; Sooby, Elizabeth S.; Besmann, Theodore M., Journal of Nuclear Materials   ‏ 540     Article Number: 152353   (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.152353

  12. T. M. Besmann, “Computational Thermodynamics” In: Konings R.J.M., (ed.) Comprehensive Nuclear Materials, volume 1, pp. 455-470 Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2012.