MSEE Director
Brookhaven National Laboratory
wishart@bnl.gov
(631) 344-4327
Conducting pulse radiolysis kinetics measurements of reactions in molten salts, including the yields of primary radiolytic transients and their reactions with metal ion solutes, reactions between intermediate product species and the kinetics and redox energetics of nanoparticle formation
MSEE Deputy Director
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
mahurinsm@ornl.gov
(865) 241-3417
Using spectroscopy, neutron and x-ray scattering to understand bulk molten salt structure, with a specific emphasis on pair distribution function analysis to examine intermediate and long-range order.
Leader, Thrust 1
University of Iowa
claudio-margulis@uiowa.edu
(319) 335-0615
Conducting classical and quantum molecular dynamics calculations with the objective of computing X-ray scattering spectra of molten salts, reactivity of excess charges, and calculations to describe the structure and dynamics of molten salts at interfaces.
Leader, Thrust 2
Idaho National Laboratory
Ruchi.Gakhar@inl.gov
Preparing and characterizing molten salt systems containing transition metals, lanthanides and actinides, and applying structural (X-ray) and spectroscopic (X-ray, UV-Vis and Raman) techniques to deduce metal ion speciation.
Leader, Thrust 3
Stony Brook University,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Karen.Chen-Wiegart@stonybrook.edu
631) 632-4537
Understanding the interaction between molten salts and metallic materials, including the effects of impurities on corrosion phenomena with synchrotron X-ray microscopy and spectroscopy.
Leader, Radiation Crosscut
Idaho National Laboratory
gregory.holmbeck@inl.gov
Conducting steady-state molten salt radiation chemistry experiments with and without the presence of actinide elements at INL and handling the manipulations for actinide-molten salt pulse radiolysis experiments at BNL’s LEAF facility.