Molten Salts: From Fundamentals to Applications

✍ Scribed by M. P. Tosi (auth.), Marcelle Gaune-Escard (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 407
• Series: NATO Science Series 52
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Several state-of-the-art applications of molten salts are presented, such as metal-molten salt systems, room temperature glass formation, and room temperature melts. Several recent examples of applications highlight the importance of molten salts in various industries (batteries, pyrochemical reprocessing of nuclear fuel, synthesis and catalysis). The basic concepts of the structure, dynamics, electrochemistry, interfacial and thermodynamic properties are detailed and relevant experimental methods described. Such fundamental concepts are essential for an in-depth understanding of the physicochemical properties of molten salts in general, including metal-molten salts, glass forming and low temperature melts. Experimental methods for investigating structural, dynamical, electrochemical thermodynamical and interfacial properties are detailed, as also are techniques for data collection and analysis.

Scientists, engineers and technologists will find the volume a valuable reference source covering a wide spectrum of fundamental concepts and modern technologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Molten Salts: Fundamentals....Pages 1-22
Electronic Properties of Metal/Molten Salt Solutions....Pages 23-46
Light Scattering from Molten Salts: Structure and Dynamics....Pages 47-106
Neutron Scattering: Technique and Applications to Molten Salts....Pages 107-148
Metal-Molten Salt Interfaces: Wetting Transitions and Electrocrystallization....Pages 149-177
Modelling of Thermodynamic Data....Pages 179-211
Thermodynamic Model of Molten Silicate Systems....Pages 213-240
Data Mining and Multivariate Analysis in Materials Science....Pages 241-248
Pyrochemistry in Nuclear Industry....Pages 249-261
Molten Salts for Safe, Low Waste and Proliferation Resistant Treatment of Radwaste in Accelerator Driven and Critical Systems....Pages 263-282
Electrochemical Techniques....Pages 283-303
Origin and Control of Low-Melting Behavior in Salts, Polysalts, Salt Solvates, and Glassformers....Pages 305-320
Electrodes and Electrolytes for Molten Salt Batteries: Expanding the Temperature Regimes....Pages 321-344
Synthesis and Catalysis in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids....Pages 345-355
Coordination Compounds in Melts....Pages 357-373
Calorimetric Methods....Pages 375-400
Back Matter....Pages 401-404

✦ Subjects

Analytical Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Polymer Sciences