In this work, the thermal reaction of aluminum (Al) and nickel oxide (NiO) was investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. Some effective features of reaction such as reaction temperature, the reaction mechanism, and diffusion rate of oxygen into aluminum structure were studied. ReaxFF force field was performed to study the Al/NiO thermite reaction behavior at five different temperatures (5...

Reported here is the first observation of the tunneling surface diffusion of a hydrogen (H) atom on water ice. Photostimulated desorption and resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization methods were used to determine the diffusion rates at 10 K on amorphous solid water and polycrystalline ice. H-atom diffusion on polycrystalline ice was 2 orders of magnitude faster than that of deuterium atoms, i...

Direct measurement of through-plane thermal conductivity of partially saturated fuel cell diffusion media. " Master's Thesis, I am submitting herewith a thesis written by Guoqing Xu entitled "Direct measurement of through-plane thermal conductivity of partially saturated fuel cell diffusion media." I have examined the final electronic copy of this thesis for form and content and recommend that ...