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Barbara Szpunar
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Research
Latest papers
DFT + U Study of the Adsorption and Dissociation of Water on Clean, Defective, and Oxygen-Covered U3Si2{001}, {110}, and {111} Surfaces.
The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces · 2019
Atomistic and experimental study on thermal conductivity of bulk and porous cerium dioxide.
Scientific reports · 2019
Oxidation behaviour of U3Si2: an experimental and first principles investigation.
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP · 2018
Latest funding
- $120,000
COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF SELECTED ENHANCED ACCIDENT TOLERANT NUCLEAR FUELS
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $443,391
Safer fuel and cladding for future nuclear reactor
NSERC · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $95,000
COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF SELECTED METAL OXIDES WITH APPLICATION FOR CLEAN ENERGY
NSERC · 2014 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
DFT + U Study of the Adsorption and Dissociation of Water on Clean, Defective, and Oxygen-Covered U3Si2{001}, {110}, and {111} Surfaces.
Jossou E, Malakkal L, Dzade NY, Claisse A, Szpunar B, Szpunar J
Atomistic and experimental study on thermal conductivity of bulk and porous cerium dioxide.
Malakkal L, Prasad A, Oladimeji D, Jossou E, Ranasinghe J, Szpunar B, Bichler L, Szpunar J
Oxidation behaviour of U3Si2: an experimental and first principles investigation.
Jossou E, Eduok U, Dzade NY, Szpunar B, Szpunar JA
COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF SELECTED ENHANCED ACCIDENT TOLERANT NUCLEAR FUELS
Principal investigators: Szpunar, Barbara
Keywords: accident tolerant nuclear fuel; ab initio calculations; thermo-mechanical properties of nuclear materials; molecular dynamics simulation; diffusion; fission product retention; oxidation; multidisciplinary reactor safety analysis
Safer fuel and cladding for future nuclear reactor
Principal investigators: Szpunar, Jerzy
COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF SELECTED METAL OXIDES WITH APPLICATION FOR CLEAN ENERGY
Principal investigators: Szpunar, Barbara
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Barbara Szpunar and Jerzy Szpunar: 2 shared papers
- Lukas Bichler and Barbara Szpunar: 1 shared paper
- Lukas Bichler and Jerzy Szpunar: 1 shared paper
- Physics and Engineering Physics
- Mechanical Engineering
- School of Engineering
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