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P2-type layered oxides are attractive cathode active materials for sodium-ion batteries, however, these materials typically suffer from detrimental Na+/vacancy orderings. In this work, we investigate the origin as well as the influence of the transition metal ratio on Na+/vacancy orderings in P2-type cathode materials. [...]

Taillefer is a versatile Python tool for carrying out Sensitivity Analysis (SA) and uncertainty propagation (UP) studies based on Monte Carlo sampling. Developed with the primary goal of investigating sensitivities and uncertainties of steady-state thermal-hydraulic (SSTH) safety parameters of the high-performance research reactors Forschungs Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) in Garching, Germany, and the Réacteur à Haut Flux (RHF) in Grenoble, France, it can also be used for a large variety of other modeling problems.The work presented here aims to explain the underlying mathematical background of SA and UP studies with Taillefer and to show some steps to verify these routines. [...]

Nanopowders of the magnetite–maghemite series have been synthesized by coprecipitation from aqueous solutions and by the sol–gel method, and a comparative comprehensive study of their structure has been carried out using X-ray diffraction analysis, scanning electron microscopy, low-temperature nitrogen adsorption, and small-angle polarized neutron scattering. It has been established that the resulting iron oxide nanopowders are porous systems that, depending on the synthesis method, have a one-level, two-level (for powders obtained by aqueous synthesis), or three-level (for powders obtained by the sol–gel method) hierarchical structure organization with different scales and different types of aggregation for each of the structural levels, and the characteristic size for the larger level in both cases is >45 nm [...]