@article{nesvizhevsky_henry_dauga_clavier_le floch_lychagin_muzychka_nezvanov_pischedda_teander_et al._2024, title={Poly(dicarbon monofluoride) (C<sub>2</sub>F)<sub>n</sub> bridges the neutron reflectivity gap}, volume={227}, ISSN={["1873-3891"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2024.119249}, DOI={10.1016/j.carbon.2024.119249}, abstractNote={Graphites covalently intercalated with fluorine to form (C2F)n structural type compounds shows a dramatic increase of the interlayer distance up to by a factor of almost 3 to reach ∼9 Å. Such graphite fluoride compounds containing only carbon and fluorine offer the rare opportunity to bridge the so-called gap in the reflectivity of neutron reflectors. Slow neutron reflectors are of great interest in designing neutron sources as well as in fundamental and applied science; they require synthesizing high thermal and chemical compound stability graphite fluorides. In this work, a new strategy is proposed for synthesizing (C2F)n compounds in a well-controlled method. Our results show that the outcome (C2F)n has a covalent character with only sp3 hybridized carbon atoms. Moreover, C-F bonds in the fluorocarbon sheets and CF2 groups on the sheet edges lead to the desired stability and hydrophobic character. A dedicated home-made neutron diffractometer was built for measurements of double-differential neutron cross sections of crystals with specific large interlayer distances found in (C2F)n compounds. We demonstrate that the synthesized fluorine intercalated graphites developed effectively cover the gap in the reflectivity for the new generation of neutron reflectors.}, journal={CARBON}, author={Nesvizhevsky, Valery and Henry, Killian and Dauga, Louise and Clavier, Batiste and Le Floch, Sylvie and Lychagin, Egor and Muzychka, Alexei and Nezvanov, Alexander and Pischedda, Vittoria and Teander, Cole and et al.}, year={2024}, month={Jun} }
 @article{korobkina_berkutov_golub_huffman_hickman_leung_medlin_morano_rao_teander_et al._2022, title={Growing solid deuterium for UCN production}, volume={24}, ISSN={["1477-2655"]}, DOI={10.3233/JNR-220010}, abstractNote={We have experimentally studied growing a large (about 1 liter) ortho-deuterium crystal in a real UCN source cryostat and recorded the growing process optically using a camera. The best quality was observed when growing the crystal directly from a vapor phase. The crystal was grown at different mass flows of deuterium and annealed at different temperatures. Optimum conditions were found for both, obtaining an optically transparent crystal and cooling it down with minimal damage. We found that the quality, final shape and changes during annealing of the crystal are very much dependent on the temperature profile of the cryostat walls.}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF NEUTRON RESEARCH}, author={Korobkina, Ekaterina and Berkutov, Igor and Golub, Robert and Huffman, Paul and Hickman, Clark and Leung, Kent and Medlin, Graham and Morano, Matthew J. and Rao, Thomas and Teander, Cole and et al.}, year={2022}, pages={179–191} }