Production and Evaluation of Novel Radiation Shielding Materials

We can make a contribution to the implementation of project activities for the consortium, such as the production of metal oxide, carbide, and nitride-based nanostructures that could be utilized to fabricate lightweight radiation shielding materials for safeguarding individuals and equipment from radiation exposure.

Our group, which consists of one physicist and four materials scientists, is primarily concerned with sol-gel and hydrothermal synthesis of metal oxide, metal carbide, and metal nitride compounds as nanostructures. By altering the crystal formation mechanism, these methods offer exact control over the chemical composition, dimensions, and morphology of the nanostructures. Consequently, it is possible to create nanoparticles, nanofibers, nanotubes, and nanosheets.

A variety of consolidation techniques, including melt compounding or hot pressing, electrospraying, electrospinning and slip casting, pressureless sintering, spark plasma sintering, electrophoretic deposition, are used to incorporate synthesized nanostructures in the polymer and ceramic matrix composites. The performance of the nanocomposites produced for radiation shielding capability is tested against neutron and gamma radiation.

We are open to discussing with researchers who are interested in this topic.