{"id":178335,"date":"2023-12-14T20:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T02:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/newly-developed-material-gulps-down-hydrogen-spits-it-out-protects-fusion-reactor-walls"},"modified":"2023-12-14T20:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T02:25:51","slug":"newly-developed-material-gulps-down-hydrogen-spits-it-out-protects-fusion-reactor-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/newly-developed-material-gulps-down-hydrogen-spits-it-out-protects-fusion-reactor-walls","title":{"rendered":"Newly developed material gulps down hydrogen, spits it out, protects fusion reactor walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-developed-material-gulps-down-hydrogen-spits-it-out-protects-fusion-reactor-walls.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison engineers have used a spray coating technology to produce a new workhorse material that can withstand the harsh conditions inside a fusion reactor.<\/p>\n<p>The advance, <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1402-4896\/ad0098\">detailed in a paper<\/a> published recently in the journal <i>Physica Scripta<\/i>, could enable more efficient compact fusion reactors that are easier to repair and maintain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fusion community is urgently looking for new manufacturing approaches to economically produce large plasma-facing components in fusion reactors,\u201d says Mykola Ialovega, a postdoctoral researcher in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nuclear+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nuclear engineering<\/a> and engineering physics at UW\u2013Madison and lead author on the paper. \u201cOur technology shows considerable improvements over current approaches. With this research, we are the first to demonstrate the benefits of using cold spray coating technology for fusion applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison engineers have used a spray coating technology to produce a new workhorse material that can withstand the harsh conditions inside a fusion reactor. The advance, detailed in a paper published recently in the journal Physica Scripta, could enable more efficient compact fusion reactors that are easier to repair and maintain. \u201cThe fusion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}