Sentences with phrase «zirconium oxide»

The mixed oxide that consists of a blend of two known catalysts, zinc oxide and zirconium oxide, was actually developed to produce hydrogen fuel from ethanol.

The design consists of only four alternate layers of zirconium oxide and silicon dioxide and the whole stack is less than 300 nanometres thick.

The team of researchers from MIPT's Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Nanoelectronics, with the participation of their colleagues from the University of Nebraska (USA) and the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), have for the first time experimentally demonstrated that polycrystalline alloyed films of hafnium and zirconium oxides with a thickness of just 2.5 nm (see image below) retain their ferroelectric properties.

Not exact matches

The 3.7 - meter - long nuclear fuel used at Fukushima is composed of uranium oxide pellets encased in a zirconium cladding.

Rather than the pellets of uranium oxide used in other fast reactors and conventional reactors as fuel, GE would fabricate metal alloy fuels, with the plutonium or uranium mixed with zirconium metal.

The other strategy is based on different elements, including niobium, that propel hydrogen out of the oxide surface and protect the underlying zirconium alloy.

All other sodium reactors use oxide fuels, while PRISM uses a metal fuel, an alloy of zirconium, uranium, and plutonium, and the fuel rods sit in a bath of liquid sodium at atmospheric pressure.

• Ceramic process in which uranium oxide powder is used to manufacture pellets; these pellets are inserted into zirconium alloy tubes which, once they are loaded, pressurized and sealed, are called fuel rods.