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Most bulk metallic materials reveal an increased strength but a loss of ductility after cold deformation, a phenomenon known as the strength–ductility trade-off. In this study, we propose a strategy to overcome this problem by introducing a high density of crystalline defects into a Fe-based metastable alloy by refining grains to a nanometer scale. This procedure effectively enhances the kinetics and reduces the driving force for transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP). Consequently, the TRIP effect originally occurring at cryogenic temperature in the studied alloy becomes active at ambient conditions, contributing to a strength–ductility synergy and overcoming cold working induced sacrifice of ductility.

High‐entropy materials have drawn much attention as battery materials due to their distinctive properties. Lithiated high‐entropy oxide (Li0.33(MgCoNiCuZn)0.67O, LiHEO) exhibits both high lithium‐ion and electronic conductivity, making it a potential coating material for layered Ni‐rich oxide cathodes (Li1+x(Ni1−y−zCoyMnz)1−xO2, NCM or NMC) in conventional Li‐ion battery cells; however, high‐temperature synthesis limits its application. Therefore, a photonic curing strategy is used for synthesizing LiHEO and the non‐lithiated form (denoted as high‐entropy oxide [HEO]), and nanoscale coatings are successfully produced on LiNi0.85Co0.1Mn0.05O2 (NCM851005) particles. To one's knowledge, this is the first report on particle coating with high‐entropy materials using photonic curing. NCM851005 with LiHEO‐modified surface shows good cycling stability, with a capacity retention of 97% at 1 C rate after 200 cycles. The improvement in electrochemical performance is attributed to the conformal coating that prevents structural changes caused by the reaction between cathode material and liquid electrolyte. Compared to bare NCM851005, the coated material shows a significantly reduced tendency for intergranular cracking, successfully preventing electrolyte penetration and suppressing side reactions. Overall, photonic curing presents a novel cost‐ and energy‐efficient synthesis and coating procedure that paves the way for surface modification of any heat‐sensitive material for a wide range of applications.

Lithium‐excess cation‐disordered rocksalt materials are a promising class of transition metal‐based cathodes that exhibit high specific capacity and energy density. The exceptional performance is achieved through participation of anionic redox in addition to cationic redox reactions in the electrochemistry. However, anionic redox reactions accompanied by oxygen evolution, accelerated electrolyte breakdown, and structural evolution lead to voltage hysteresis and low initial Coulombic efficiency. Herein, an Al2O3 layer with varying thickness has been coated onto a high‐entropy disordered rocksalt oxyfluoride cathode through atomic layer deposition to enhance battery performance. The results indicate that the utilization of a uniform Al2O3 coating improves the capacity retention and rate capability of the cathode, with the performance being strongly dependent on the layer thickness. Further investigation into cathode–electrolyte interfacial reactions reveals that the thin protecting Al2O3 coating can reduce the decomposition of electrolyte on the cathode surface but cannot prevent bulk phase degradation during prolonged cycling. These findings highlight the need for optimized coating design on the disordered rocksalt cathode to improve battery performance.

Crystallization processes of glass-glass interfaces in sputtered CuZr thin film nanoglasses were directly studied using in situ heating experiments in a transmission electron microscope (TEM). By combining the in situ technique with a sophisticated symmetry analysis based on nanobeam diffraction patterns (NBDP) and electron correlation microscopy (ECM) to capture the relaxation dynamics in the nanoglass, correlations between excess volume and nucleation kinetics are attained on a microscopic scale. Particularly, glass-glass interfaces with their increased excess volume promote the onset of crystal nucleation.

Electron-rich heteroaromatics, such as furan, thiophene and pyrrole, as well as their benzo-condensed derivatives, are of great interest as components of natural products and as starting substances for various products including high-tech materials. Although their reactions with Brønsted and Lewis acids play important roles, in particular as the primary step of various transformations, they are often disregarded and mechanistically not understood. The present publication gives a first overview about this chemistry focusing on the parent compounds. It comprises reactions with strong Brønsted acids forming adducts that can undergo intramolecular proton and/or substituent transfer reactions, ring openings or ring transformations into other heterocycles, depending on their structure. Interactions with weak Brønsted acids usually initiate oligomerizations/polymerizations. A similar behaviour is observed in reactions of these heteroaromatics with Lewis acids. Special effects are achieved when the Lewis acids are activated through primary protonation. Deuterated Brønsted acids allow straight forward deuteration of electron-rich heteroaromatics. Mercury salts as extremely weak Lewis acids cause direct metalation in a straight forward way replacing ring H-atoms yielding organomercury heterocycles. This review will provide comprehensive information about the chemistry of adducts of such heterocycles with Brønsted and Lewis acids enabling chemists to understand the mechanisms and the potential of this field and to apply the findings in future syntheses.

Abstract Nanoglasses have attracted considerable interest among material scientists due to their novel and surprising properties. However, there is still a significant gap in understanding how nanoglasses interact with biomaterials and their effects on living cells. Previous cell studies have reported indications of possible proliferation effects, but a comprehensive understanding of differentiating nanoglass influences from distinct material or topography effects is yet to be established. In this study, the interaction between nanoglass surfaces and phospholipids, which are fundamental components of cell membranes, is investigated. The findings reveal a unique stabilizing effect exhibited by nanoglasses on structures created using lipid dip‐pen nanolithography, preventing their spreading over the surface (“confinement”). This discovery suggests that nanoglasses can potentially influence the structure of cell membranes, providing a conceivable mechanism for how nanoglasses may impact cell behavior.

Abstract High entropy oxides (HEOs), based on the incorporation of multiple‐principal cations into the crystal lattice, offer the possibility to explore previously inaccessible oxide compositions and unconventional properties. Here it is demonstrated that despite the chemical complexity of HEOs external stimuli, such as epitaxial strain, can selectively stabilize certain magneto‐electronic states. Epitaxial (Co0.2Cr0.2Fe0.2Mn0.2Ni0.2)3O4‐HEO thin films are grown in three different strain states: tensile, compressive, and relaxed. A unique coexistence of rocksalt and spinel‐HEO phases, which are fully coherent with no detectable chemical segregation, is revealed by transmission electron microscopy. This dual‐phase coexistence appears as a universal phenomenon in (Co0.2Cr0.2Fe0.2Mn0.2Ni0.2)3O4 epitaxial films. Prominent changes in the magnetic anisotropy and domain structure highlight the strain‐induced bidirectional control of magnetic properties in HEOs. When the films are relaxed, their magnetization behavior is isotropic, similar to that of bulk materials. However, under tensile strain, the hardness of the out‐of‐plane (OOP) axis increases significantly. On the other hand, compressive straining results in an easy OOP magnetization and a maze‐like magnetic domain structure, indicating the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Generally, this study emphasizes the adaptability of the high entropy design strategy, which, when combined with coherent strain engineering, opens additional prospects for fine‐tuning properties in oxides.

With respect to efficient use of diminishing or harder to reach energy resources, the catalysis of processes that will otherwise require high overpotentials is a very important application in today's world. As a newly developed class of materials, high‐entropy sulfides (HESs) are promising electrocatalysts for a variety of different reactions. In this report, HESs containing five or six transition metals are synthesized in a one‐step mechanochemical process. Seven HESs of Pnma (M:S≈1:1) and three Pa‐3 (M:S = 1:2) structures are investigated as electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The performances and properties of the HESs with different compositions and structures are compared with each other and with commercial IrO2 as reference material, in terms of OER overpotential, Tafel slope, electrochemically active surface area, ionic conductivity, and durability. The structural and chemical properties of these HESs are determined by X‐ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy. Most of the HESs show excellent and promising performance as OER electrocatalysts under alkaline conditions, and outperform the reference OER catalyst IrO2.

Strengthening of metals by grain refinement is limited by the inverse Hall-Petch effect. Here, the authors show nanograined metals can be strengthened by exhausting lattice dislocations via triggering of phase transformation at grain boundaries, instead of further grain refinement.

This study explores high-entropy sulfides (HESs) as potential electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Novel Pa -3 and Pnma structured HESs containing Fe, Mn, Ni, Co and Mo, were synthesized via a facile mechanochemical method. Structural and chemical properties were extensively characterized using x-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The electrocatalytic performance of four as-prepared HESs in alkaline electrolyte for HER reveals the remarkable outperformance compared to medium-entropy and conventional sulfides. Particularly, (Fe _0.2 Mn _0.2 Ni _0.2 Co _0.2 Mo _0.2 )S _2 demonstrated outstanding activities, with minimal overpotentials (187 mV at 10 mA cm ^–2 ) and outstanding durability under harsh alkaline conditions (a mere polarization increase Δ E = 17 mV after 14 h via chronopotentiometry). The remarkable catalytic activities can be attributed to synergistic effects resulting from the cocktail effects within the high-entropy disulfide. The introduction of Mo contributes to the formation of a layered structure, which leads to an increased surface area and thus to a superior HER performance compared to other HES and conventional sulfides. This work demonstrates the promising potential of HES and underscores that further development for catalytic applications paves the way for innovative routes to new and more efficient active materials for HER catalysis.

Fluorite-type ceria-based ceramics are well established as oxygen ion conductors due to their high conductivity, superseding state-of-the-art electrolytes such as yttria-stabilized zirconia. However, at a specific temperature and oxygen partial pressure they occasionally exhibit electronic conduction attributed to polaron hopping via multivalent cations (e.g. Pr and Ce). (Ce, La, Pr, Sm, Y)O _2− _δ is a high-entropy oxide with a fluorite-type structure, featuring low concentrations of multivalent cations that could potentially mitigate polaron hopping. However, (Ce, La, Pr, Sm, Y)O _2− _δ undergoes a structural transition to the bixbyite-type structure above 1000 °C. In this study, we introduce Zr doping into (Ce, La, Pr, Sm, Y)O _2− _δ to hinder the structural transition at elevated temperatures. Indeed, the fluorite structure at elevated temperatures is stabilized at approximately 10 at.% Zr doping. The total conductivity initially increases with doping, peaking at 5 at.% Zr doping, and subsequently decreases with further doping. Interestingly, electronic conductivity in (Ce, La, Pr, Sm, Y) _1− _x Zr _x O _2− _δ under oxidizing atmospheres is not significant and is lowest at 8 at.% Zr. These results suggest that ceria-based high-entropy oxides can serve as oxygen ion conductors with a significantly reduced electronic contribution. This work paves the way for new compositionally complex electrolytes as well as protective coatings for solid oxide fuel cells.

Inspired by the success of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based deep learning methods for optical image segmentation, there is a growing interest in applying these methods to Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) data. However, effectively utilizing well-established real-valued CNNs for PolSAR image segmentation requires converting complex-valued data into real-valued representations. This paper presents a systematic comparison of 14 different real-valued representations used as CNN input in the literature. These representations encompass various approaches, including the use of coherency matrix elements, hand-crafted feature vectors, polarimetric features based on target decomposition, and combinations of these methods. The goal is to assess the impact of the choice of PolSAR data representation on segmentation performance and identify the most suitable representation. Four test configurations are employed to achieve this, involving different CNN architectures (U-Net with ResNet-18 or EfficientNet backbone) and PolSAR data acquired in different frequency bands (S- and L-band). The results emphasize the importance of selecting an appropriate real-valued representation for CNN-based PolSAR image segmentation. This study’s findings reveal that combining multiple polarimetric features can potentially enhance segmentation performance but does not consistently improve the results. Therefore, when employing this approach, careful feature selection becomes crucial. In contrast, using coherency matrix elements with amplitude and phase representation consistently achieves high segmentation performance across different test configurations. This representation emerges as one of the most suitable approaches for CNN-based PolSAR image segmentation. Notably, it outperforms the commonly used alternative approach of splitting the coherency matrix elements into real and imaginary parts.

Fundamental understanding of local atomic features of high entropy oxides (HEOs) is limited due to their compositional complexity. Here the authors show composition fluctuation induced local oxygen octahedral distortion, chemical bond covalency and correlated properties in a series of HEOs.

Persistent Scatterer Deformation Pattern Analysis Tool, for short PSDefoPAT, was designed to assign each measuring point of an advanced DInSAR data set a best-fitting time series model based on its displacement time series. In this paper, we will outline the operating principles of the tool. The periodic and trend components of a time series model are separately determined based on hypothesis tests. The periodic component is fitted as a sine function, and for the trend component, linear, quadratic, and piecewise linear regression models are considered. Additionally, the tool assesses the goodness-of-fit for each model in the form of the adjusted coefficient of determination Radj2 value. The tool works fully automatically and thus facilitates the analysis of large data sets, which are becoming more available to the public due to services such as the European Ground Motion Service. Additionally, we demonstrate the capabilities of PSDefoPAT using four case studies characterized by different deformation mechanisms, various extents of active deformation area, and varying density of measuring points. In all cases, we successfully reveal information on the temporal behavior of the deformation not apparent in the typically presented mean deformation velocity maps.

High-entropy materials offer a wide range of possibilities for synthesizing new functional ceramics for different applications. Many synthesis methods have been explored to achieve a single-phase structure incorporating several different elements, yet a comparison between the synthesis methods is crucial to identify the new dimension such complex ceramics bring to material properties. As known for ceramic materials, the synthesis procedure usually has a significant influence on powder morphology, elemental distribution, particle size and powder processability. Properties that need to be tailored according to specific applications. Therefore, in this study perovskite-type high-entropy materials (Gd0.2La0.2–xSrxNd0.2Sm0.2Y0.2) (Co0.2Cr0.2Fe0.2Mn0.2Ni0.2)O3 (x = 0 and x = 0.2) are synthesized for the first time using mechanochemical synthesis and a modified Pechini method. The comparison of different syntheses allows, not only tailoring of the constituent elements of high-entropy materials, but also to optimize the synthesis method as needed to overcome limitations of conventional ceramics. To exploit the novel materials for a variety of energy applications, their catalytic activity for oxygen evolution reaction was characterized. This paves the way for their integration into, e.g., regenerative fuel cells and metal air batteries.

This article overviews several areas of research into architectured materials which, in the opinion of the authors, are most topical and promising. The classes of materials considered are based on meso scale designs inspired by animate and inanimate Nature, but also on those born in the minds of scientists and engineers, without any inspiration from Nature. We present the principles governing the design of the emerging materials architectures, discuss their explored and anticipated properties, and provide an outlook on their future developments and applications.

Abstract Nanoglass (NG) as a new structure-tunable material has been investigated using both experiments and computational modeling. Experimentally, inert gas condensation (IGC) is commonly employed to prepare metallic glass (MG) nanoparticles that are consolidated using cold compression to generate an NG. In computational modeling, various methods have been used to generate NGs. However, due to the high computational cost involved, heretofore modeling investigations have not followed the experimental synthesis route. In this work, we use molecular dynamics simulations to generate an NG model by consolidating IGC-prepared Cu64Zr36 nanoparticles following a workflow similar to that of experiments. The resulting structure is compared with those of NGs produced following two alternative procedures previously used: direct generation employing Voronoi tessellation and consolidation of spherical nanoparticles carved from an MG sample. We focus on the characterization of the excess free volume and the Voronoi polyhedral statistics in order to identify and quantify contrasting features of the glass-glass interfaces in the three NG samples prepared using distinct methods. Results indicate that glass-glass interfaces in IGC-based NGs are thicker and display higher structural contrast with their parent MG structure. Nanoparticle-based methods display excess free volume exceeding 4%, in agreement with experiments. IGC-prepared nanoparticles, which display Cu segregation to their surfaces, generate the highest glass-glass interface excess free volume levels and the largest relative interface volume with excess free volume higher than 3%. Voronoi polyhedral analysis indicates a sharp drop in the full icosahedral motif fraction in the glass-glass interfaces in nanoparticle-based NG as compared to their parent MG.

High-entropy oxides are an upcoming research topic due to their broad range of possible crystal structures and applications. In this work, we want to present the change in the catalytic properties when using different elements to create a high-entropy spinel. Therefore, we used the nebulized-spray pyrolysis to synthesize the high-entropy spinel (Mn0.2Fe0.2Ni0.2Mg0.2Zn0.2)3O4 and later on exchanged the Mg or the Zn with elements with multiple possible oxidation states, in our example each with Cr or Co. The phase purity, morphology, microstructure and homogeneity were investigated by XRD, SEM and STEM-EDX. Their electrocatalytic performance and stability was measured via oxygen evolution reaction and cyclic voltammetry and compared to IrO2, used as reference. The best performance of the synthesized materials was achieved by (Mn0.2Fe0.2Ni0.2Mg0.2Cr0.2)3O4.

Strontium ferromolybdate, Sr2FeMoO6, is an important member of the family of double perovskites with the possible technological applications in the field of spintronics and solid oxide fuel cells. Its preparation via a multi-step ceramic route or various wet chemistry-based routes is notoriously difficult. The present work demonstrates that Sr2FeMoO6 can be mechanosynthesized at ambient temperature in air directly from its precursors (SrO, α-Fe, MoO3) in the form of nanostructured powders, without the need for solvents and/or calcination under controlled oxygen fugacity. The mechanically induced evolution of the Sr2FeMoO6 phase and the far-from-equilibrium structural state of the reaction product are systematically monitored with XRD and a variety of spectroscopic techniques including Raman spectroscopy, 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The unique extensive oxidation of iron species (Fe0 → Fe3+) with simultaneous reduction of Mo cations (Mo6+ → Mo5+), occuring during the mechanosynthesis of Sr2FeMoO6, is attributed to the mechanically triggered formation of tiny metallic iron nanoparticles in superparamagnetic state with a large reaction surface and a high oxidation affinity, whose steady presence in the reaction mixture of the milled educts initiates/promotes the swift redox reaction. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy observations reveal that the mechanosynthesized Sr2FeMoO6, even after its moderate thermal treatment at 923 K for 30 min in air, exhibits the nanostructured nature with the average particle size of 21(4) nm. At the short-range scale, the nanostructure of the as-prepared Sr2FeMoO6 is characterized by both, the strongly distorted geometry of the constituent FeO6 octahedra and the extraordinarily high degree of anti-site disorder. The degree of anti-site disorder ASD = 0.5, derived independently from the present experimental XRD, Mössbauer, and SQUID magnetization data, corresponds to the completely random distribution of Fe3+ and Mo5+ cations over the sites of octahedral coordination provided by the double perovskite structure. Moreover, the fully anti-site disordered Sr2FeMoO6 nanoparticles exhibit superparamagnetism with the blocking temperature TB = 240 K and the deteriorated effective magnetic moment μ = 0.055 μB per formula unit.

Designing efficient system for digital connectivity preserving information security remains a challenge. Here, the authors present hardware-intrinsic security solutions based on physical unclonable functions incorporating an inkjet-printed core circuit as an intrinsic source of entropy, integrated into a silicon-based CMOS system environment.

“Electric field control of ferromagnetism is typically limited by screening, and is restricted to the first few layers of metals. Here the authors overcome this limitation via the absorption of hydrogen into metal structure, demonstrating voltage control of magnetic properties of micron-scale SmCo5.”

Resistance mutations can be detected in 75% of CLL patients progressing under BTK inhibitor therapy. Using semiquantitative wild-type-blocking (WTB) RT-PCR for BTK and Sanger sequencing for PLCG2 mutations, we compared detection sensitivity of cellular versus circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in 20 sample pairs of 13 consecutive patients.With an assay sensitivity of 0.06%, 7 patients had a BTK-C481S and one a PLCG2-G667E mutation. Cellular DNA was positive in 10 but ctDNA only in 6 samples, giving false-negative results in samples with low mutational burden.In summary, WTB-PCR is cost-effective and routinely applicable but misses low frequency mutations when using ctDNA.

Bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) particles are prepared by a combined mechanochemical−thermal processing of a Bi2O3 + α-Fe2O3 mixture. Structural, magnetic, hyperfine, morphological and chemical properties of the as-prepared BiFeO3 are studied using X-ray diffraction (Rietveld refinement), 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, SQUID magnetometry, electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. It is revealed that the structure of the ferrite exhibits the long-range distortion (significantly tilted FeO6 octahedra) and the short-range disorder (deformed FeO6 octahedra). Consequently, these structural features result in the suppression of a space modulated cycloidal spin arrangement in the material. The latter manifests itself by the appearance of only single spectral component in the 57Fe Mössbauer spectrum of BiFeO3. The macroscopic magnetic behavior of the material is interpreted as a superposition of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic contributions with a large coercive field and remanent magnetization. Taking into account the average particle size of the as-prepared BiFeO3 particles (∼98 nm), exceeding the typical period length of cycloid (∼62 nm), both the suppression of the spiral spin structure in the material and its partly ferromagnetic behavior are attributed to the crystal lattice distortion caused by mechanical stress during the preparation procedure.

Magnesium-based amorphous alloys have aroused broad interest in being applied in marine use due to their merits of lightweight and high strength. Yet, the poor corrosion resistance to chloride-containing seawater has hindered their practical applications. Herein, we propose a new strategy to improve the chloride corrosion resistance of amorphous Mg65Cu15Ag10Gd10 alloys by engineering atomic-to-nano scale structural homogeneity, which is implemented by heating the material to the critical temperature of the liquid–liquid transition. By using various electrochemical, microscopic, and spectroscopic characterization methods, we reveal that the liquid–liquid transition can rearrange the local structural units in the amorphous structure, slightly decreasing the alloy structure’s homogeneity, accelerate the formation of protective passivation film, and, therefore, increase the corrosion resistance. Our study has demonstrated the strong coupling between an amorphous structure and corrosion behavior, which is available for optimizing corrosion-resistant alloys.

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In this work, the deformation behavior of as-prepared (AP) and structurally relaxed (SR) Cu–Zr–based nanoglasses (NGs) are investigated using nano- and micro-indentation. The NGs are subjected to structural relaxation by annealing them close to the glass transition temperature without altering their amorphous nature. The indentation load, p, vs. displacement, h, curves of SR samples are characterized by discrete displacement bursts, while the AP samples do not show any of them, suggesting that annealing has caused a local change in the amorphous structure. In both the samples, hardness (at nano- and micro-indentation) decreases with increasing p, demonstrating the indentation size effect. The micro-indentation imprints of SR NGs show evidence of shear bands at the periphery, indicating a heterogeneous plastic flow, while AP NG does not display any shear bands. Interestingly, the shear band density decreases with p, highlighting the fact that plastic strain is accommodated entirely by the shear bands in the subsurface deformation zone. The results are explained by the differences in the amorphous structure of the two NGs.

Owing to their robust Li-ion storage properties induced by the entropy stabilization effect, transition-metal-based high entropy oxides are considered promising electrode materials for use in Li-ion batteries. In this work, full-cells comprising (Co0.2Cu0.2Mg0.2Ni0.2Zn0.2)O anode and LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 cathode were assembled to explore their potential for practical applications. The cycling performance was studied by different electrochemical experiments. The cells were found to deliver an initial specific discharge capacity of 446 mAh g−1, which was maintained at 300 and 256 mAh g−1 after 50 and 100 cycles, respectively, and they showed stable cyclability even at specific currents of 1.6 A g−1. More importantly, high specific energy and power densities of about 240 Wh kg−1 and 320 W kg−1 were achieved. Additionally, pouch cells of total capacity 2.5 mAh were built and successfully employed as a power source. Keywords: Lithium-ion battery, Full-cell, High entropy oxide anode, NCM111 cathode, Three-electrode cyclic voltammetry

The datasets presented here are related to the research paper entitled “Disordered Gd6UO12-δ with the cation antisite defects prepared by a combined mechanochemical−thermal method” [1]. The datasets complement the findings [1] on the effect of the combined mechanochemical−thermal processing of the stoichiometric mixture of solid precursors (3Gd2O3 + UO2) on the formation of Gd6UO12-δ phase. In this article, we provide (i) X-ray diffraction (XRD) data of the 3Gd2O3 + UO2 mixture milled for 12 h, (ii) the refined XRD data of the non-milled 3Gd2O3 + UO2 mixture after annealing at 1282 °C for 3 h in air, and (iii) the thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA) data for non-milled and mechanically preactivated 3Gd2O3 + UO2 mixture measured in air at a heat rate of 10 K/min.