Fabrication of Pt nanoparticle incorporated polymer nanowires by high energy ion and electron beam irradiation

Tsukuda, Satoshi*; Takahashi, Ryota*; Seki, Shuhei*; Sugimoto, Masaki; Idesaki, Akira; Yoshikawa, Masahito; Tanaka, Shunichiro*

Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 118, p.16 - 20, 2016/01

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2015.05.029

Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)-Pt nanoparticles (NPs) hybrid nanowires were fabricated by high energy ion beam irradiation to PVP thin films including HPtCl. Single ion hitting caused crosslinking reactions of PVP and reduction of Pt ions within local cylindrical area along an ion trajectory (ion track); therefore, the PVP nanowires including Pt NPs were formed and isolated on Si substrate after wet-development procedure. The number of Pt NPs was easily controlled by the mixed ratio of PVP and HPtCl. However, increasing the amount of HPtCl led to decreasing the radial size and separation of the hybrid nanowires during the wet-development. Additional electron beam irradiation after ion beam improved separation of the nanowires and controlled radial sizes due to an increase in the density of crosslinking points inner the nanowires.

Evaluation of fission product and actinide release behaviors focusing on their chemical forms; Phase relation and fission product release behavior resulting from interaction between molten zircaloy and irradiated MOX fuel

Tanaka, Kosuke; Miwa, Shuhei; Sato, Isamu; Hirosawa, Takashi; Sekine, Shinichi; Seki, Takayuki*; Tokoro, Daishiro*; Obayashi, Hiroshi; Koyama, Shinichi

JAEA-Research 2013-022, 62 Pages, 2014/01

JAEA-Research-2013-022.pdf:33.64MB

In order to establish the method for heating tests focused on the fission product release resulting from the high temperature chemical interaction between fuel and cladding material and to obtain the novel data on fission product release behaviors, the heating test was carried out with irradiate MOX fuel pellet and cladding.

Fullerene nanowires as a versatile platform for organic electronics

Maeyoshi, Yuta*; Saeki, Akinori*; Suwa, Shotaro*; Omichi, Masaaki*; Marui, Hiromi*; Asano, Atsushi*; Tsukuda, Satoshi*; Sugimoto, Masaki; Kishimura, Akihiro*; Kataoka, Kazunori*; et al.

Scientific Reports (Internet), 2, p.600_1 - 600_6, 2012/08

https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00600

The development of organic semiconducting nanowires that act as charge carrier transport pathways in flexible and lightweight nano-electronics is a major scientific challenge. We report on the fabrication of fullerene nanowires that is universally applicable to its derivatives (pristine C, methanofullerenes of C and C, and indene C bis-adduct). Nanowires with radii of 811 nm were formed via a chain polymerization reaction induced by a high-energy ion beam. Fabrication of a poly(3-hexylthiophene): [6,6]-phenyl C butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic cell including PCBM nanowires with precisely-controlled length and density demonstrates how application of this methodology can improve the power conversion efficiency of these inverted cells.

Test beam-line for laser-driven proton therapy

Sakaki, Hironao; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Hori, Toshihiko; Bolton, P.; Yogo, Akifumi; Ogura, Koichi; Sagisaka, Akito; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Orimo, Satoshi; Kondo, Kiminori; et al.

Proceedings of 7th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (DVD-ROM), p.312 - 315, 2010/08

http://www.pasj.jp/web_publish/pasj7/proceedings/SH_6AM_2/FRSH09.pdf

The beam transport test is carried out through the test beam line of the laser-driven proton accelerator which consists of the phase rotation cavity, PMQ, and bending magnet. The laser system used is J-KAREN at JAEA. The final transmitted bunch duration and transverse profile are well predicted by the PARMILA particle transport code by assuming relatively low initial current of the proton beam. The most probable explanation for this is the space charge neutralization by the laser-plasma-electrons.

Laser-driven proton accelerator for medical application

Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Sakaki, Hironao; Hori, Toshihiko; Bolton, P.; Ogura, Koichi; Sagisaka, Akito; Yogo, Akifumi; Mori, Michiaki; Orimo, Satoshi; Pirozhkov, A. S.; et al.

Proceedings of 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC '10) (Internet), p.88 - 90, 2010/05

http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/accelconf/IPAC10/papers/mopea013.pdf

The concept of a compact ion particle accelerator has become attractive in view of recent progress in laser-driven ion acceleration. We report here the recent progress in the laser-driven proton beam transport at the Photo Medical Research Center (PMRC) at JAEA, which is established to address the challenge of laser-driven ion accelerator development for ion beam cancer therapy.

1-D crosslinked polymer nanowires prepared by single particle nanofabrication techniques

Seki, Shuhei*; Tsukuda, Satoshi*; Tagawa, Seiichi*; Sugimoto, Masaki; Sato, Takahiro; Oikawa, Masakazu*; Sakai, Takuro

JAEA-Review 2006-042, JAEA Takasaki Annual Report 2005, P. 145, 2007/02

no abstracts in English

Effect of Oxygen Potential on the Sintering behavior of MOX fuel containing Am

Miwa, Shuhei; Osaka, Masahiko; Yoshimochi, Hiroshi; Tanaka, Kenya; Seki, Takayuki*; Sekine, Shinichi*

JNC TN9400 2005-023, 43 Pages, 2005/04

JNC-TN9400-2005-023.pdf:3.56MB

The effect of oxygen potential on the sintering behavior of MOX fuel containing Am (Am-MOX) was investigated. Green pellets of Am-MOX were prepared by a conventional powder metallurgical technique. For Am-MOX fuel pellets sintered at various oxygen potential conditions, density measurement, microstructural observation and elements analyses by EPMA were performed High density pellets having good structure were obtained due to oxygen potential change of sintering atmosphere from high oxygen potential to low oxygen potential at 800C in the cooling process.For the pellets sintered at -520 kJ/mol, -390 kJ/mol and -340 kJ/mol, the sintered density increases with increase of oxygen potential up to -390 kJ/mol (threshold oxygen potential), then decreases above the threshold oxygen potential. This tendency is similar to that observed in the (U,Gd)O system. The differences of sintering behavior for Am-MOX pellets which were observed by changing the oxygen potential were attributable to the difference of pore structure, which was supposed to be caused by the valence state of Am in the oxides. On the other hands, the grain size of Am-MOX pellet sintered at -520 kJ/mol was almost the same as that at -390 kJ/mol. Homogeneous distribution of U, Pu and Am was obtained at pellets sintered both -520 and -390 kJ/mol in these sintering conditions. For the pellets sintered at 1500C , 1600C , 1700C , the high dense pellets are obtained, therefore This results shows the the possibility of fabrication of good fuel pellets at lower temperature than 1700C

Fabrication of nanowires using high-energy ion beams

Tsukuda, Satoshi*; Seki, Shuhei*; Tagawa, Seiichi*; Sugimoto, Masaki; Idesaki, Akira; Tanaka, Shigeru; Oshima, Akihiro*

Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 108(11), p.3407 - 3409, 2004/03

https://doi.org/10.1021/jp037638s

Nano-wire formation in Si-based polymer thin films using a heavy ion beam is discussed in terms of energy density deposition along ion tracks. Gelation of the polymer along the ion track results in cross-linking to produce nano-wires with size and number density controllable by selecting appropriate ion beam characteristics and polymer materials. Ion bombardment of polycarbosilane (PCS), PCS-polyvinylsilane blend polymer, and polymethylphenylsilane produces nano-wires with radii of 30 nm depending on the type of ion beam. The difference in size is shown to be related to the efficiency of the cross-linking reaction considering the deposited energy distribution along the ion tracks.

Ion beam induced crosslinking reactions in poly(di-n-hexylsilane)

Seki, Shuhei*; *; *; *; Yoshida, Yoichi*; Kudo, Hisaaki; Sugimoto, Masaki; Morita, Yosuke; Seguchi, Tadao; *; et al.

Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 103(15), p.3043 - 3048, 1999/00

https://doi.org/10.1021/jp9847080

no abstracts in English

Synthesis of ceramic nanowire from precursor polymers by ion beam irradiation

Sugimoto, Masaki; Yoshikawa, Masahito; Tsukuda, Satoshi*; Seki, Shuhei*; Tagawa, Seiichi*

no journal, , 

We have succeeded in synthesizing the silicon carbide (SiC) nanowires from polycarbosilane (PCS) using MeV-order heavy-ion beam irradiation technique. PCS was crosslinked along ion tracks of nano-size in diameter through the whole thickness of PCS thin film. Nanowires were developed on the surface of the substrate by dissolution and washing away of uncrosslinked polymer by solvent. Subsequent pyrolysis converted polymeric into inorganic SiC nanowires. The diameter of nanowires was depended on LET (liner energy transfer), molecular weight and cross-linking efficiency of PCS.