NSUF 17-CINR-12527: Additive manufacturing of thermal sensors for in-pile thermal conductivity measurement

The goal of this project is to develop and demonstrate an additive manufacturing approach to fabricate nonintrusive and spatially resolved sensors for in-pile thermal conductivity measurement through direct sensor printing onto fuel components or fuel surrogates. Thermal conductivity is one of the most important fuel properties driving heat transfer performance as well as temperature distributions of the fuel assembly. Thermal conductivity is determined by materials’ physical structure, chemical composition, and thermodynamic state, which can be strongly affected by a variety of physical processes in nuclear fuels, such as species diffusion, neutron capture, and microstructure evolution.

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Awarded Institution University of Notre Dame
CINR Number 17-12527
Embargo End Date 2027-12-19
NSUF Call FY 2017 CINR
PI Yanliang Zhang
Project Member Yanliang Zhang - University of Notre Dame
Project Notes Awarded on 12/19/2019
Project Type CINR
Publication High-performance and flexible thermoelectric films by screen printing solution-processed nanoplate crystals David Estrada, Courtney Hollar, Yanliang Zhang Scientific Reports 6 2016-09-12 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep33135
RTE Number 3048