Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials (CHWM)
Director
Hans‐Conrad zur Loye
Lead Institution
University of South Carolina
Class
2016-2024
Mission
To develop the chemical understanding and hierarchical structure motifs needed to create materials for effectively immobilizing nuclear waste species in persistent architectures.
Research Topics
extreme environments, nuclear, separations, materials and chemistry by design, mesostructured materials, synthesis (novel systems), synthesis (predictive)
Systems Studied
Systems: oxide, ceramic, actinide
Interfaces: None
Nanostructured: None
Experimental and Theoretical Methods
X-ray diffraction and scattering, neutron diffraction and scattering, electron microscopy, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), mesoscale modeling, multiscale modeling
Partner Institutions
- Alfred University
- Clemson University
- Commissariat à l'Energie
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Savannah River National Laboratory
- University of Florida
- University of Michigan
- University of South Carolina
