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Lab News & Scientific Highlights
In-situ neutron tomography study of a dehydrating and hydrating packed bed for thermochemical heat storage
To study the heat and water vapor transport and reaction kinetics in a packed bed of thermo-chemical material on both reactor and tablet level, an in-situ neutron imaging study of a dehydrating and subsequently hydrating packed bed consisting of cylindrical K2 CO3 tablets was performed at the Paul Scherrer Institute ...
Field-Induced Magnon Decay, Magnon Shadows, and Rotonlike Excitations in the Honeycomb Antiferromagnet YbBr3
The search for new quantum many-body phenomena in magnetic materials has a strong focus on highly frustrated systems and the resulting quantum spin-liquid state. However, even unfrustrated magnetic materials show a multitude of unconventional features in their spin excitation spectra. By using the synergy of ...
Generating structured foam via flowing through a wire array
Efficient manufacturing methods could unlock foams with tailored, anisotropic properties. Conventional foam production methods rely on the self-arrangement of bubbles, typically leading to isotropic materials, or involve intricate additive layering processes. This study presents a simple, passive technique to modify the foam structure. A set of thin parallel wires ...
Recent publications
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Aarts J, Mazur N, D’Rose R, de Jong S, Kaestner A, Fischer H
Non-destructive techniques for thermal energy storage technologies
Journal of nondestructive evaluation. 2025; 44(4): 141 (20 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-025-01283-w
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Marabotto M, Re A, Guidorzi L, Lo Giudice A, Grassini S, Grazzi F, et al.
Preliminary evaluation of calibration method on Double Crystal Monochromator and Time-of-Flight Bragg Edge Neutron Transmission analysis
Nuovo Cimento C. 2025; 48(4): 242 (4 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1393/ncc/i2025-25242-7
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Mao T, Ong Q, Kohlbrecher J, Poliukhina E, Silva PJ, Stellacci F
Proline stabilizes amphiphilic gold nanoparticles via hydrophobic interactions
Nanoscale Horizons. 2025; 10(11): 3061-3071. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5nh00260e
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