Radiation chemistry of high temperature and supercritical water

Lin, M.; Katsumura, Yosuke*; Muroya, Yusa*

The state-of-the-art in the field of water radiolysis at elevated temperatures and supercritical water are reviewed, with the emphasis on the temperature and density effects on the radiolytic yields of water decomposition products, the reaction rate constants and the spectral properties of hydrated electron. The latest studies on supercritical water by picosecond pulse radiolysis as well as some main results about pulse radiolysis of alcohols at elevated temperatures are also introduced.